Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX97NE 11 9646 7621.

(NX 9646 7621) Bronze Age Urnfield found AD 1930 (NAT)

OS 25" map (1965)

A Bronze Age urnfield was uncovered in April 1930 when levelling a field at Palmerston, between Terregles Street and Glasgow Street. A total of at least ten urns, including a food vessel and two pygmy vessels, the remainder being cinerary urns, were found; they contained cremations, one accompanied by a flint scraper and greenish staining of the cremated bone suggesting the former presence of a bronze blade. A smooting stone and two stones which might be considered implements were also found. The material was all found within a circular area 41 ft in diameter; there was no trace of a covering cairn. The finds were donated to Dumfries Museum.

G W Shirley 1932; D D A Simpson 1965; A Morrison 1968

Sited to NX 9646 7621 by Mr Truckell, Dumfries Museum.

Visited by OS (EGC) 8 December 1960