Badden stone box top

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The stone box plate from Badden (Engl. Badden Cist Slab ) is an archaeological find in Kilmartin in Scotland , the v in 3000-500. Is dated.

In 1960, the side plate of a stone box , about 300 m southeast of the Badden farm, was plowed from a depth of 25 cm. No other slabs were found and there was no evidence of the contents of the stone box.

The plate measured 1.53 m in length, 0.55 m in width and was 0.08 m thick. It was decorated on the upper half of its inside with double and triple concentric lozenge-shaped motifs . On both sides, these cross the 50 mm wide and 20 mm deep, pecked channels that were used to fix the two end plates of the box. The lower edge of the plate has been removed to ensure that it is supported on a base plate. The decoration is similar to that on an end plate, also from a stone box, and found at Cairnbaan , just over 2 km northwest of Badden.

Excavations at the time of the discovery revealed an area of ​​5,2 x 2,4 m in which rounded stones were found, the interpretation of which is uncertain. It also contained deposits of charcoal and worked flint . According to a local report, a flat stone slab was found in the field 30 years earlier, but it was buried again because it was believed to be a tombstone. It is uncertain whether it was the same slab or a different part of the stone box.

Badden's flagstone is in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow .

See also

literature

  • The Royal Commission on the Ancient and historical Monuments of Scotland: Kilmartin Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments. An Inventory of the Monuments Extracted from "Argyll, Volume 6" . The Royal Commission on the Ancient and historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-902419-03-9 , pp. 36-37.
  • Marion Campbell of Kilberry, JG Scott, Stuart Pigott : The Badden Cist Slab . In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . 94, 1960/1961, ISSN  0081-1564 , pp. 46-61, online (PDF; 1.45 MB) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badden Cist Slab in the Heritage Key ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Retrieved on November 23, 2015.

Coordinates: 56 ° 2 ′ 46.6 "  N , 5 ° 26 ′ 24.1"  W.