Publication Account
Date 1933
Event ID 1098366
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098366
Tumulus and Cinerary Urns.
An urn, which is now in Kirkcaldy Museum, was found when digging the foundations of the house known as ‘The Binn’. “Previous to the finding of this urn, in building Greenmount - another good site - a number of these urns were found together. They were much broken in excavating, but were given to Mr. Paton of Glasgow Museum. Slabs of stone had covered the tops, and Miss K. J. Kirke, Hilton, thinks there were also some flint arrow-heads. I have seen an old estate map on which the place where these were found is shown as a conical tumulus, described as such. On the same map at the base of the south side of Craigkennochie there is marked ‘an artificial cairn probably a place of sepulture’.”- Young's History of Burntisland, pp. 14-15.
"The Binn" and Greenmount are in the north-east neighbourhood of Burntisland.
RCAHMS 1933
