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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715896
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715896
NT39NE 1 3613 9900.
A Bronze Age cist cemetery was found in 1906, on the eastern top of a height known locally as 'the Sussan Brae' now named Denbeath.
Over a dozen cists were found, some containing urns. Four urns, including portions of a Beaker, are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS accession nos. EQ 587 and 590).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1951; The Reliquary 1907; Information from NMAS accessions list.
The site of the cemetery, located at NT 3613 9900 from the descripton above, is now part of a new housing development area.
No further finds have been reported.
Visited by OS (J F C) 4 October 1954.
