Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690684

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51SW 7 5327 1264.

A cist containing an inverted overhanging rim urn, of late MBA - early LBA date, was discovered during ploughing at Woodend Farm, Stravithie. The urn, which was covered by a flat slab, measured 18ins in height, 16ins, in maximum diameter, and 14ins in diameter at the base which was broken. Within the urn was found an incense cup, 2 3/4ins in height and 4ins in maximum diameter, and a quantity of fragmentary bones. The urn and incense cup are now in the Bell Pettigrew Museum, St Andrews.

Information from unpublished notes of R Walmsley, Bute Medical Building, St Andrews.

NO 5327 1264. The site, which forms a small depression in a field at present under pasture, was pointed out on the ground by R Mackie, ploughman, who made the discovery.

Visited by OS (DS) 15 October 1956

The urn and incense cup along with all the archaeological collections from the Bell Pettigrew Museum, St Andrews were transferred to Fife Council Museums Service in 1985.

Information from Fife Council Museum Service, 20 November 2002.