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Buttony cist

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Notes about name:
 
Buttony or Botany is a field name, a kind of joke after Botany Bay - a place of servitude a long way
away - thus not popular with the farm hands.

Current location: Museum: Museum of Antiquities

Parish: Chatton CP, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England   

Panel type:

  • Burial Cairn

Legal status: Private

Nature of access: Museum

Wheelchair access: Museum


General notes:
 
In 1938 a cist was uncovered during ploughing close to the Till, with 'incised markings' on the underside. One third of the stone was sent to the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle. Human bone was also reported from it.
 

 

 
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