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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 2629/2/5
TitleExcavation of short cist burial at Newlands, Oyne, Aberdeenshire
Date1935
Extent1 file
DescriptionField notes and sketches of Newlands cist, September 1935 (manuscript).

Report: 'A Short Cist containing a Beaker and other relics at Newlands, Oyne, Aberdeenshire', with list of figures/illustrations (one manuscript and one typescript copy).

Letter from Kathleen M. Smith, Pittodrie, Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, thanking Low for his letter with news about the cist and photographs of same, 23 September 1935.

Note from 'A.W.G.', Geology Department, Aberdeen University, classifying two specimens of stone [?the cist walls and/or cap] as phyllite and spotted phyllite, and musing upon their locality of origin, 23 October 1935.

Letter from R. Laidlaw Smith, Pittodrie, Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, thanking Low for his letter and donating the cist and its contents to the Anatomy Department, University of Aberdeen, 24 October 1935.

Letter from Graham Callander, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, thanking Low for his letter and expressing his pleasure that Low is to give a paper on 'A Short Cist containing a Beaker and other relics at Newlands, Oyne, Aberdeen shire' to the Society, 17 February 1936.

Letter from Howard Kilbride-Jones, Liberton, Edinburgh, telling Low that he will be unable to attend his presentation to the Society of Antiquaries owing to illness, 3 March 1936. He also acknowledges the significance of the finds at Newlands : 'There is apparently no record of two bracers having been found together anywhere in these islands: and this, and the two grooves on the back of the larger bracer, make the find a very unique one indeed, especially since it clears up the mystery of how the strings for tying the bracers on to the wrist, were arranged.'

Programme for evening meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 9 March 1936, at which Low was to present his paper on the Newlands cist.

Photograph of beaker urn from the Newlands cist and mounted photograph of same.

Proof copy illustrations for Low's paper on the Newlands cist, n.d. Annotated.

Newspaper reports of the find and of Low's presentation to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1935-1936.
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