Publication Account
Date 1933
Event ID 1099448
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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Bronze Age Cemetery, Shanwell House.
About the year 1884, when improvements were being carried out near Shanwell House, what seems to have been a small cremation cemetery of the Bronze Age was revealed. As is usual in most cases of similar discoveries, the site of the cemetery was a natural ridge or hillock of no great altitude. The burials brought to light as the result of the excavations yielded, in at least four cases, urns of the usual cinerary form. They appear to have been simply set in the soil and covered over, without any protecting cist. A thin oval bronze blade with incised ornament was found in association with one of the deposits. Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xix (1884-5), pp. 114-17.
RCAHMS 1933
