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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 680064
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/680064
NO00NE 7 076 050.
A small Bronze Age cremation cemetery was found when gravel quarrying on a natural ridge or hillock near Shanwell House. Deposits of burnt bones were found near the surface, in four cases, associated with a cinerary urn. A Middle Bronze Age razor and a small quadrangular whetstone were also found. One urn was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1885 (Accession no: EA 107), and another urn and the razor were kept at Shanwell House.
J Anderson 1885; 1886; J M Coles 1966.
The only gravel quarry near Shanwell House (almost certainly the site of the Bronze age cemetery) is at NO 076 050. It is now disused.
The whereabouts of the urn and razor formerly at Shanwell House are not known.
Visited by OS (R D) 21 December 1967.
