Bleak Law, Saughland
Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Bleak Law, Saughland
Classification Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 54807
Site Number NT46SW 20
NGR NT 424 614
NGR Description NT c. 424 614
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54807
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Crichton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
Note (1988)
NT46SW 20 c. 424 614
In the 1820s two cists and seven urns were found in a 'tumulus' known as 'Black-law Knoll' on the farm of Saughland. One of the cists contained an inhumation, and the urns held cremations. Two of the urns survive; the larger (RMS,EA 54) is a collared urn of Longworth's secondary series; the other (RMS,EA 53) is a cordoned urn decorated with vertical incised lines around the upper part of the body. (Bleak Law: name at NT 424 614).
RCAHMS 1988
(Archaeol Scot 1831; Name Book 1853; J Abercromby 1912; I H Longworth 1984)
