Note
Date 1978
Event ID 1047952
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Mars Hill, Alloa, NS c. 884 929 NS89SE 9 and 20
At least two cists and twenty two cinerary urns were discovered in a ‘tumulus’ during road construction in 1828, and a further ‘urn’ was found in 1850. Both cremated and unburnt bone was found in the cinerary urns; the two cists contained inhumations accompanied by gold amulets of Late Bronze Age type. The surviving objects are in the National Museums of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS nos. EA 7, EQ 118-119). It is possible that the eight or nine ‘urns’ recorded as from ‘the head of the town of Alloa’ in 1758 were found in the same area.
RCAHMS 1978
(NSA, viii, Clackmannan, 41; Anderson 1883, 447-9; 1886, 62-3; Crawford 1874, 26-8, 32-3)
