Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682132

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO11NE 4 c. 197 168.

Five or six urns, full of ashes and burnt bone, were found half a mile SE of the Medieval coin hoard (NO11NE 14) while levelling an eminence on the road near the supposed eastern limit of the ancient town of Abernethy. The urns, described as being of a 'pretty large size,' were discovered with their mouths downward only six inches below the surface, and were, with one exception, broken on excavation. They were made of burnt clay, with some rude sculpture around the mouth, narrow at the base and wide in the middle and mouth, with a narrow neck. The undamaged specimen is with J Patterson of Carpow.

A Small 1823.

No further information found. The finds are possibly associated with or related to the cist NO11NE 10.

Visited by OS (W D J) 4 August 1965.

It is not known whether any of the five or six urns found here in the 19th century survive.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 25 November 1996.