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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 690592
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690592
NO54SW 17 512 410.
(Name centred NO 512 410) Bronze Age Cists found 1868 (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1970)
Six cists, at least one of them short, were found at Fallows in 1868 during the construction of the railway line. All were of red sandstone flags.
The first cist to be found measured 3'4" by 2'3" by 18" deep and lay in the south side of a hillock. It contained a skeleton, a beaker, three flint implements, two flint flakes and was paved with a rubbing stone.
A second cist containing a skeleton lay about 35yds from the first. Its capstone measured 4'7" by 4'2" but no dimensions are given for the cist itself.
The other four cists lay between these two. Two were paved and contained unburnt burials, but the other two were unpaved and contained ashes.
The grave-goods and rubbing-stone from the first cist are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession nos: Flints AB 185-194; Rubbing-stone BA 28; Beaker EG 17).
A Jervise 1871; M E C Mitchell 1934; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1875; 1890; NMAS 1892.
There are two hillocks in the vicinity of Fallaws. One, at NO 5125 4096, has been quarried in the south side, and is almost certainly the one in which the first cist was found. The other, at NO 5114 4099, is a natural rise in a ploughed field with a considerable scatter of stones on top. Visited by OS (RD) 11 May 1966.
