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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 711695
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/711695
NT18SW 8 1120 8449.
(NT 1120 8449) Bronze Age Cists found AD 1885 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1967)
A cemetery of six short cists (Munro alleges that there were seven) was found in August 1885 in a sandpit near the intersection of the Inverkeithing road by the Dunfermline-Queensferry railway. Four cists each contained a food-vessel and possible cremation; one urn was accompanied by a flint flake, another by a discoidal flint scraper. The fifth cist was empty, and the sixth, smallest, cist contained only cremated bones. One food vessel is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no EE71); the others are in Dunfermline Museum (Accession nos 1968. 463-5). The flint flake (1968:462a), scraper (1968. 462b) and some burnt bone, are also in Dunfermline Museum (information from M Norgate, Dunfermline Museum, 9 October 1972).
H Beveridge 1886; R Munro 1899; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1896
The site of this Bronze Age burial ground is now covered by chicken runs.
Visited by OS (AC) 12 March 1959
