Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641394

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP61SW 18 c. 647 147.

(Area: HP 647 147) 'Fustrie's Knowe', about 300yds NW of 'Bartle's Kirk' (HP61SW 4) 'is a high mound of decayed sandstone... formerly used as a burial-place. Here some forty years ago, the crofter whilst delving about and around the mound came ..... upon some thirty urns of different sizes and shapes, standing in rows; but as little or no interest was then taken in such relics, they have unfortunately been totally lost.'

T Edmonston 1873.

A burnt mound. (site)

(Although listed under 'Mounds of Burnt Stones', there is nothing to suggest this in either authority.

T Edmonston 1873; RCAHMS 1946.

No trace, and no local knowledge.

Visited by OS (RL) 26 April 1969.