Stone boxes from Hallow Hill
The stone boxes from Hallow Hill (derived from Holy Hill - dt. Holy hill ) is an archaeological site in Scotland . The Pictish stone boxes lie on a small hill surrounded by the Cairnsmill and Kinness Burn streams in southwest St Andrews in the Unitary Authority of Fife .
The English called Long Cist Cemetery consists of over 20 long and short stone boxes . As early as 1860, burials were found in the partially destroyed stone boxes. A short box contained Roman artifacts (including a glass, broken glass and a glass ring), but these were lost.
Between 1975 and 1977 over 150 burials, most of them in rows of long stone boxes from the 7th century, were unearthed. The first group was spotted in the garden of a new house on Hallow Hill and the other in a park outside. In addition, post pits of a chapel near the western edge of the burial ground , a paved road across the burial ground towards the former settlement of Kinrimund and two short boxes were discovered. One of them was the one examined in 1860, the other was intact. Both contained child burials and Roman finds from the 2nd century AD.
A representative group of six of the 20+ stone boxes were left open when the site was refilled after the excavation. The long Hallow Hill boxes were carefully built from sandstone taken from the coast about three miles away. Several stones had bowls .
See also
Web links
- Entry on stone boxes from Hallow Hill in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
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Coordinates: 56 ° 19 '46.4 " N , 2 ° 49' 17.2" W.