Quinish stone chest
The Quinish stone box , found in 1891 while quarrying gravel and destroyed, was located near Dervaig on the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .
It is one of the places where discoveries have been made but no visible remains have been preserved. Your capstone is kept in a flowerbed of a house about 20 m west of the site.
A vessel decorated with string was found. It is 14 cm high, 13 cm in diameter at the mouth and 5.5 cm at the base. The edge is decorated with a zigzag pattern . The jar donated by James A Forsyth is in the National Museum of Scotland . A bronze ax from a private collection in Doncaster is said to have been made by Quinish.
The Quinish Stone Range is northwest of Dervaig.
literature
- Argyll: An Inventory of the Monuments Volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll & Northern Argyll (excluding the Early Medieval and later monuments of Iona). Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland [1980], ISBN 0-11-491591-1
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Coordinates: 56 ° 36 ′ 18.1 ″ N , 6 ° 12 ′ 49.6 ″ W.