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Meadowside

Bell (Medieval), Coin(S) (Medieval), Mount(S) (Copper)(Medieval), Seal (Medieval), Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)

Site Name Meadowside

Classification Bell (Medieval), Coin(S) (Medieval), Mount(S) (Copper)(Medieval), Seal (Medieval), Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Coupar Angus Abbey; Meadowside Farm

Canmore ID 76568

Site Number NO23NW 67

NGR NO 224 397

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Coupar Angus
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO23NW 67 224 397

A number of medieval finds have been made on Meadowside Farm in the field to the E of the site of Coupar Angus Abbey (NO23NW 13.00). These include white gritty pottery, oyster shells, and a butchered cattle tibia; a decorative bronze mount, a trefoil-shaped horse-harness pendant, an enamelled copper alloy mount in the shape of a shield, a copper alloy strap end, and a small copper alloy bell. Also found were a heart-shaped copper alloy mount with the incised letters 'dc', probably of 16th or 17th century date, and a William and Mary turner of 1691-4.

A late 15th or early 16th century lead seal matrix from this site has been allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery as Treasure Trove. All other material donated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Accession nos 1992, 45, 46, 49, 50, 64.2, 109, 110, 145.

(i) William the Lion silver penny, 1195-c.1245, moneyer Hue Walter mint possibly Roxburgh.

(ii) Henry III silver cut halfpenny, Short Cross, Class 7, c.1218-42.

(iii) James III copper black farthing, 1st issue, 1465-6.

(iv) James II/III copper 'Ecclesiastical farthing', second half of 15th century.

(v) Copper alloy Nuremberg jeton, probably late 15th century.

(vi) Louis XIII copper double tournois of 1611. (vii) Charles I copper turner, 1st issue, 1629.

Scottish Coin Finds Register Nos Misc/92/14, 3, 4, 15, 6, 16, 5. Returned to finders.

M D King 1992.

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