Monybachach
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of excavated finds from a small Bronze Age cist cemetery discovered, and subsequently excavated by Jack G Scott and a group of volunteers, in 1988 at Monybachach Farm, to the north of Skipness, Kintyre, Argyll & Bute. The collection dates to between 2200 and 1700 BC in the Early Bronze Age. This collection consists of an excavated assemblage from three cists (stone-lined graves). The first cist to be discovered, during farming operations, contained a jet and lignite spacer plate necklace, a whetstone, a bronze flat riveted dagger or knife blade, five pitchstone flakes, and a flint flake. No human remains were recovered from this cist, probably due to decay caused by acidic soil conditions. Two further cists were found a few metres away from the first one. One cist contained only human tooth enamels, probably belonging to a child, and the third cist contained some adult human remains, including tooth enamels, and a food vessel pot.
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