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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670129

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670129

NJ72NW 13 7375 2579.

(NJ 7375 2579) Urns found (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Whilst excavating a gravel pit, two urns containing charred bones and ashes were found.

Name Book 1867.

No further information.

Visited by OS (RL) 19 February 1969.

Newspaper reference: Press and Journal 9 June 1937.

NMRS, MS/712/69.

The present whereabouts of these urns, which were found before 1867, are not known. Nothing is visible of the gravel-pit in which the urns were found, and its site now lies in a cultivated field.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 5 May 1999.

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