Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728910

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY18SW 16 1301 8312.

(Centred NY 130 831) Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery with two inserted inhumations excavated in 1961 by W F Cormack and R Little. Smaller finds in National Museum of Antiquities.

Sited approximately from Location Map, the area is one in which an urn containing human bones was published on OS 6" (FS 43) of 1862 at NY 1299 8312.

W F Cormack 1965

Apart from several amorphous undulations at NY 1301 8312 which correspond to the site shown on Cormack's plan, there are no surface traces of the cemetery. A E Truckell, curator, Dumfries Museum, states that all the finds located during the 1961 excavation are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (NMAS), but a few flints found on the site since 1961 are in Dumfries Museum.

Visited by OS (RD) 23 May 1966.

Collared urn of Primary Series, form IA. Diameter (mouth) 13.1 ins (33.3cm), height 15.1 ins (38.4cm), diameter (base) 4.75 ins (12 cm); decoration (collar) horizontal rows of incised herringbone broken by panels of vertical incised herringbone, (neck) incised herringbone. Found within flat cemetery in pit of diameter 1 ft 9 ins (53.3 cm) and depth 1 ft 10 ins (55.9 cm) inverted over cremation on three flattish stones; associated with plano-convex flint knife. Held in NMAS under accession number EQ 676.

I H Longworth 1984.