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Field Visit
Date July 1985
Event ID 1156375
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156375
Doonfoot, Dunure Road NS 3233 1884 NS31NW 10
In 1936 a small Bronze Age cemetery was discovered in the course of house construction along the NE side of Dunure Road, Doonfoot. The first burial to be discovered, a cist containing 'the skeleton of a child' and a 'small cup', was destroyed shortly after it was opened. A second cist (1.07m by 0.61 m arid 0.38m deep), with a pebble floor, contained
a crouched inhumation accompanied by an undecorated Food Vessel (GAGM); a small cist which had been built against its S end contained a Cinerary Urn (now lost). About 0.46m below the slabs of the larger cist a broken Food Vessel (GAGM) and a polished flint knife (now lost) were discovered on a rectangular patch of paving measuring about
1.22m by 0. 36m. Fragments of bone and a group of sherds probably representing at least four Food Vessels and a Cinerary Urn (GAGM) were also recovered from a cartload of sand on the building site but it unclear from where it came.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) July 1985.
(Simpson 1965, 38, no. 1 O; Davidson 1967; Scott 1967; Morrison 1968, 107, no. 34).
