Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679757

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO02SE 16 0842 2384

For Newhouse Quarry (NO 0838 2387), see NO02SE 95.

(NO 0842 2384) Cist (NR) (site of)

(NO 0843 2384) Cist (Found AD. 1897) (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A stone cist 5' x 2'7" was discovered on Feb. 4th 1897 at Latham Quarry (Newhouse Quarry). Inside were the fragmentary bones of a man, and an Early Bronze Age knife-dagger 3 1/8" long with three rivets. The upper stone of the cist had on its lower surface eleven cup marks.

In 1916 Coates found that the cist had been re-erected on the surface of the ground, a few yards back from its original position. (H Coates 1919) The knife dagger is in the National Museum of Antiquities where is also a stone whorl 1 1/8" diameter from the same quarry, presented by Trotter. (PSAS 1899) (Accession no: EQ 242)

F R Coles 1897; H A Hall 1898; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1897; 1899; H Coates 1919.

There is now no trace of this cist. The quarry is now in use as a rubbish tip. No information could be obtained regarding the cist so it must be presumed to have been buried amongst the rubbish.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (W D J) 27 October 1965.

(Flat, rivetted Knife-dagger). Knife-dagger, damaged heel with traces of three rivet-holes; one loose rivet; straight hilt-mark; present L. 7,9cm, present W. 3,5cm.

S Gerloff 1975.

The quarry (NO02SE 95) in which this cist was found was infilled as a land-fill site in the 1980's, and subsequently landscaped.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 24 October 1995.