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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 681844
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/681844
NO10SE 1 1799 0222.
(NO 1799 0222) Bronze Age Cinerary Urn found AD 1946 (NAT)
OS 25" map (1967)
An encrusted urn burial was found by D Nichol of Kilmagad farm during spring ploughing in 1946. The base of the urn was destroyed in the process. The site was a sloping knoll 250 yds NW of Kilmagad and 40 yds below the Scotlandwell - Kinnesswood road. Nichol had removed a number of large stones from the knoll, but these may have had no direct connection with the burial. The knoll, however, seemed to be rather stony in comparison with the sandy soil of the field.
The urn (now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland {NMAS} - Accession no: EA 232), 15 1/2 ins high, was inverted in a paved circular hole. It contained a small amount of ashes, some having been removed when first found. More ashes filled a space between stones.
R B K Stevenson 1948.
