Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716586

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT37SW 19 3442 7194.

(NT 3442 7194) Cinerary Urns and Roman Coin found AD 1827 (NAT)

OS 6" map (1913)

Workmen found two cinerary urns which lay within a circle of 'curiously shaped' stones, about 100 yds S of Inveresk Church, while making a fence in 1827. These stones, which bore the marks of fire, seem to have formed a sacrificial altar. Scattered upon them were fragments of half-burnt bones of wild boars' tusks and deer's horns. The urns, which were 8" - 10" high, circular, tapering towards the bases, were broken. Each contained a small quantity of ashes and their bases were stamped with the potter's initials. A coin of Vespasian was found beside them (D M Moir 1860).

G Macdonald 1918

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Visited by OS (JLD) 8 December 1953