J N Graham Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J N Graham Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | J N Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE J N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ludovic McLellan Mann (1869-1955)
James Curle (1862-1944) and Alexander Ormiston Curle (1866-1955)
Cairn 3, Acharn, Morvern, Argyll
One of a group of cairns (see 77/4714), this platform cairn yielded a central cist containing flint and quartz artefacts, probably relating to an original BA burial; and the cremated remains of a 20-year-old, sherds and a 14C date relating to an Iron Age reuse of the cist. A R
A cist from Kentraw, Islay
A clay-luted cist in a natural gravel mound contained at least four inhumations of young adults, possibly buried successively, with a radiocarbon date centred on 1560 bc, together with a Vase Food Vessel, a cord-decorated miniature vessel, and a flint blade. A R
Walter Gordon Grant
Grant cleared and consolidated the Broch of Midhowe, Rousay and also examined other Orkney monuments; his chief memorial is the sites he conserved for the national interest
Cists from Kilbride, Mid Argyll
Cists at Traigh Bhan, Islay, Argyll
A cist from Kelloe Mains, Berwickshire
A cist from Gallowayford, Stewarton, Ayrshire
In 1850 a short cist was discovered about 125 m W of Gallowayford and 700 m NNW of Kennox in Stewarton parish, Ayrshire (NGR NS 38154559), a location now in Kilmarnock and Loudoun district of Strathclyde Region.The finding of the cist is described in a letter to the Ordnance Survey by Major C S McAlister of Kennox dated 22 September 1856, and preserved in the Name Book (Ayrshire, no 58,1856, p 35).The cist, situated near the W bank of the Glazert…
Pictish stones from Lindores and Westfield Farm, Fife
Knappers, Dunbartonshire
Excavations at Machrins, Colonsay
A kiln at Machrins, Colonsay, Argyll
Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona, Argyll
NM 274247. A small fort defended by a stone wall with internal traces of a circular house; the pottery typifies the decorated Iron Age wares of the Hebrides, for which a chronological range 100 BC-AD 300 is likely. A R
Cists from Sunlaws, Roxburghshire
In December 1977 the discovery of a cist at Sunlaws, Roxburghshire, in the Roxburgh district of Borders Region, was reported to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The cist (fig The capstone, a substantial block of red sandstone (1-25 m long, 0-75 m broad and 0-15 m thick), rested on a seating of flat slabs round the edge of the cist in order to keep it level. An unusual feature of its construction was the us…
Recent work on Coll and Skye
The Stones of Stenness, Orkney
HY 307125. Report of excavations on the Class I henge together with discussion (by E W Marwick) of the folklore surrounding an outlying standing stone, the Stone of Odin, and a catalogue of important 18th and 19th century illustrations of both sites. Excavation of the henge revealed that a ring of twelve stones was originally planned and that a complex stone and timber setting occupied the centre, grooved ware was found in both the central featur…
A long cist at Ringleyhall, Roxburgh
Small cairns in Argyll
The first two authors report on the excavation of a series of cairns in the Aline Valley, Morvern: Acharn (NM 702504, NM 697507), Claggan (NM 697493) and Kinlochaline (NM 692474). The latter two sites belong to the kerb-cairn class of monument, and a discussion of kerb-cairns in Argyll, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire and N Wales is provided by Lynch and Ritchie. Charcoal associated with central cremation burials at Claggan gave radiocarbon dates centr…
A Bronze Age cemetery at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife
NT 117863. The cemetery consisted of three short cists, an urn burial and two cremation patches. One cist contained a crouched inhumation, probably female, accompanied by pig bones; a second cist showed no trace of burial though phosphate analysis tended to suggest one. The third cist held a crouched inhumation 14C-dated in 17th century bc, a Food Vessel, slug knife, strike-a-light and piece of iron ore. An Enlarged Food Vessel containing a femal…
Excavation of a chambered cairn at Dalineun, Lorn, Argyll
NM 879267. The excavation of this multiperiod cairn clarified the relationship between a Clyde type chambered tomb and a simple massive cist formerly considered to be a potential protomegalith. The Clyde chamber proved to constitute the earliest building phase, set within a heel-shaped cairn and containing neolithic burials. Beaker burials formed a second phase of activity in the chamber, together with a small cist immediately outside the entranc…
Iron Age finds from Dùn an Fheurain, Gallanach, Argyll
NM 824266. Illustrated catalogue and discussion of objects found during 19th-century excavations in a midden at Dùn an Fheurain and in a dun at Leccamore on Luing (NM 750107). The material from Dùn an Fheurain indicates occupation in the first two centuries AD (samian, ring-headed pin, spiral finger-ring) and in the mid and later first millennium AD (bone pins and comb, bone potter's stamp). A perforated antler plaque may belong to the wrest-plan…
Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife
(1974). Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 131, No. 1, pp. 1-32
Excavation of the chambered cairn at Achnacreebeag
NM 929363. Excavation of a multi-period chambered cairn showed the passage-grave to be secondary to the simple closed chamber but shed no light on the morphological relationship between the two. The closed chamber was covered by a circular cairn which had been extended into an oval cairn when the passage-grave was built on to its perimeter. No dating evidence was found for the earlier tomb. Two phases of use were distinguished in the passage-grav…
Excavation of a Cairn at Strontoiller, Lorn, Argyll
The Stones of Stenness, Orkney
HY 307125. Report of excavations on the Class I henge together with discussion (by E W Marwick) of the folklore surrounding an outlying standing stone, the Stone of Odin, and a catalogue of important 18th and 19th century illustrations of both sites. Excavation of the henge revealed that a ring of twelve stones was originally planned and that a complex stone and timber setting occupied the centre, grooved ware was found in both the central featur…
Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife
(1974). Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 131, No. 1, pp. 1-32
Small cairns in Argyll
The first two authors report on the excavation of a series of cairns in the Aline Valley, Morvern: Acharn (NM 702504, NM 697507), Claggan (NM 697493) and Kinlochaline (NM 692474). The latter two sites belong to the kerb-cairn class of monument, and a discussion of kerb-cairns in Argyll, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire and N Wales is provided by Lynch and Ritchie. Charcoal associated with central cremation burials at Claggan gave radiocarbon dates centr…
Excavations at Machrins, Colonsay
Recent work on Coll and Skye
A Bronze Age cemetery at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife
NT 117863. The cemetery consisted of three short cists, an urn burial and two cremation patches. One cist contained a crouched inhumation, probably female, accompanied by pig bones; a second cist showed no trace of burial though phosphate analysis tended to suggest one. The third cist held a crouched inhumation 14C-dated in 17th century bc, a Food Vessel, slug knife, strike-a-light and piece of iron ore. An Enlarged Food Vessel containing a femal…
Ludovic McLellan Mann (1869-1955)
A cist from Kelloe Mains, Berwickshire
Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona, Argyll
NM 274247. A small fort defended by a stone wall with internal traces of a circular house; the pottery typifies the decorated Iron Age wares of the Hebrides, for which a chronological range 100 BC-AD 300 is likely. A R
Excavation of a Cairn at Strontoiller, Lorn, Argyll
Two new Pictish symbol stones from Orkney
Excavation of the chambered cairn at Achnacreebeag
NM 929363. Excavation of a multi-period chambered cairn showed the passage-grave to be secondary to the simple closed chamber but shed no light on the morphological relationship between the two. The closed chamber was covered by a circular cairn which had been extended into an oval cairn when the passage-grave was built on to its perimeter. No dating evidence was found for the earlier tomb. Two phases of use were distinguished in the passage-grav…
A Bronze Age cemetery at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife
NT 117863. The cemetery consisted of three short cists, an urn burial and two cremation patches. One cist contained a crouched inhumation, probably female, accompanied by pig bones; a second cist showed no trace of burial though phosphate analysis tended to suggest one. The third cist held a crouched inhumation 14C-dated in 17th century bc, a Food Vessel, slug knife, strike-a-light and piece of iron ore. An Enlarged Food Vessel containing a femal…
Excavation of a chambered cairn at Dalineun, Lorn, Argyll
NM 879267. The excavation of this multiperiod cairn clarified the relationship between a Clyde type chambered tomb and a simple massive cist formerly considered to be a potential protomegalith. The Clyde chamber proved to constitute the earliest building phase, set within a heel-shaped cairn and containing neolithic burials. Beaker burials formed a second phase of activity in the chamber, together with a small cist immediately outside the entranc…
Iron Age finds from Dùn an Fheurain, Gallanach, Argyll
NM 824266. Illustrated catalogue and discussion of objects found during 19th-century excavations in a midden at Dùn an Fheurain and in a dun at Leccamore on Luing (NM 750107). The material from Dùn an Fheurain indicates occupation in the first two centuries AD (samian, ring-headed pin, spiral finger-ring) and in the mid and later first millennium AD (bone pins and comb, bone potter's stamp). A perforated antler plaque may belong to the wrest-plan…
Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife
(1974). Excavation of the Stone Circle and Cairn at Balbirnie, Fife. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 131, No. 1, pp. 1-32
A long cist at Ringleyhall, Roxburgh
Small cairns in Argyll
The first two authors report on the excavation of a series of cairns in the Aline Valley, Morvern: Acharn (NM 702504, NM 697507), Claggan (NM 697493) and Kinlochaline (NM 692474). The latter two sites belong to the kerb-cairn class of monument, and a discussion of kerb-cairns in Argyll, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire and N Wales is provided by Lynch and Ritchie. Charcoal associated with central cremation burials at Claggan gave radiocarbon dates centr…
The Stones of Stenness, Orkney
HY 307125. Report of excavations on the Class I henge together with discussion (by E W Marwick) of the folklore surrounding an outlying standing stone, the Stone of Odin, and a catalogue of important 18th and 19th century illustrations of both sites. Excavation of the henge revealed that a ring of twelve stones was originally planned and that a complex stone and timber setting occupied the centre, grooved ware was found in both the central featur…
Recent work on Coll and Skye
A kiln at Machrins, Colonsay, Argyll
Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona, Argyll
NM 274247. A small fort defended by a stone wall with internal traces of a circular house; the pottery typifies the decorated Iron Age wares of the Hebrides, for which a chronological range 100 BC-AD 300 is likely. A R
Cists from Sunlaws, Roxburghshire
In December 1977 the discovery of a cist at Sunlaws, Roxburghshire, in the Roxburgh district of Borders Region, was reported to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The cist (fig The capstone, a substantial block of red sandstone (1-25 m long, 0-75 m broad and 0-15 m thick), rested on a seating of flat slabs round the edge of the cist in order to keep it level. An unusual feature of its construction was the us…
Knappers, Dunbartonshire
Excavations at Machrins, Colonsay
Cists at Traigh Bhan, Islay, Argyll
A cist from Kelloe Mains, Berwickshire
A cist from Gallowayford, Stewarton, Ayrshire
In 1850 a short cist was discovered about 125 m W of Gallowayford and 700 m NNW of Kennox in Stewarton parish, Ayrshire (NGR NS 38154559), a location now in Kilmarnock and Loudoun district of Strathclyde Region.The finding of the cist is described in a letter to the Ordnance Survey by Major C S McAlister of Kennox dated 22 September 1856, and preserved in the Name Book (Ayrshire, no 58,1856, p 35).The cist, situated near the W bank of the Glazert…
Pictish stones from Lindores and Westfield Farm, Fife
Cists from Kilbride, Mid Argyll
Walter Gordon Grant
Grant cleared and consolidated the Broch of Midhowe, Rousay and also examined other Orkney monuments; his chief memorial is the sites he conserved for the national interest
A cist from Kentraw, Islay
A clay-luted cist in a natural gravel mound contained at least four inhumations of young adults, possibly buried successively, with a radiocarbon date centred on 1560 bc, together with a Vase Food Vessel, a cord-decorated miniature vessel, and a flint blade. A R
Cairn 3, Acharn, Morvern, Argyll
One of a group of cairns (see 77/4714), this platform cairn yielded a central cist containing flint and quartz artefacts, probably relating to an original BA burial; and the cremated remains of a 20-year-old, sherds and a 14C date relating to an Iron Age reuse of the cist. A R
Ludovic McLellan Mann (1869-1955)
Archaeology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geology (11 works) · Geology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · History (8 works) · Excavation (7 works) · History (7 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (7 works)