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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710453
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710453
NT14SE 2 1836 4161.
(NT 1836 4161) Cist found 1938 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1963)
A cremation burial was found in April 1938 within an inverted cinerary urn of Enlarged Food Vessel type, dateable to the Middle Bronze Age. It was situated in the face of a gravel pit 100 yds S of Tappitknowe cottage. The base of the urn lay about 9" below ground level and it was closely protected round the side, and on the top and bottom, by six squarish flat slabs. The urn was donated to the Chambers Institute, Peebles.
RCAHMS 1967; R B K Stevenson 1951
In the Chambers Institute, Peebles
Visited by OS (DWR) 9 June 1971
