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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 704523
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704523
NS65NE 17 6678 5886
(NS 6678 5886) Cists found AD 1930 (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1958)
Two cists and a cremation deposit were uncovered during the construction of Dalton School, Cambuslang, in November 1930. One cist, covered by a capstone measuring 1.1m by 0.8m, consisted of four sandstone slabs and measured 0.7m by 0.5m internally and 0.5m in depth. An upright Food Vessel was found on the floor, but there were no skeletal remains. The second cist, about 2m further W, had been disturbed, but also contained a Food Vessel; the capstone measured 1.4m by 1.1m. A deposit of cremated bones was discovered in a hollow dug about 0.6m into the ground at a distance of 2.1m E of the first cist. The Food Vessels are now in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (Accession nos: '55-96).
Information from the Glasgow Herald, 11 November 1930 and the Daily Record, 8 November 1930; W D Simpson 1965; RCAHMS 1978.
NS 6678 5886. The find spot was indicated on OS 6" map by Mr Maxwell.
Visited by OS (J L D) 26 August 1953.
