Culduthel stone chest

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The Culduthel Stone Box is a short, Bronze Age stone box located near the Culduthel Farm, about 3 miles south of Inverness and north of the B8082 (road) in Scotland . She was discovered by a farmer near the River Ness.

The stone box contained a crouched female skeleton, a necklace or belt made of pitch charcoal, including a V-shaped perforated toggle, a small piece of obsidian , a fragment of a bronze awl, and pieces of charcoal . The finds are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) and the University of Aberdeen Anatomy Museum .

South of the B8082, very close by is the Clava Cairn of Culduthel.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 26 '51.3 "  N , 4 ° 13' 40.9"  W.