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Shanwell House
Cremation Cemetery (Prehistoric)
Site Name Shanwell House
Classification Cremation Cemetery (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 26487
Site Number NO00NE 7
NGR NO 076 050
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26487
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Orwell
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Kinross-shire
NO00NE 7 076 050.
A small Bronze Age cremation cemetery was found when gravel quarrying on a natural ridge or hillock near Shanwell House. Deposits of burnt bones were found near the surface, in four cases, associated with a cinerary urn. A Middle Bronze Age razor and a small quadrangular whetstone were also found. One urn was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1885 (Accession no: EA 107), and another urn and the razor were kept at Shanwell House.
J Anderson 1885; 1886; J M Coles 1966.
The only gravel quarry near Shanwell House (almost certainly the site of the Bronze age cemetery) is at NO 076 050. It is now disused.
The whereabouts of the urn and razor formerly at Shanwell House are not known.
Visited by OS (R D) 21 December 1967.
Publication Account (1933)
Bronze Age Cemetery, Shanwell House.
About the year 1884, when improvements were being carried out near Shanwell House, what seems to have been a small cremation cemetery of the Bronze Age was revealed. As is usual in most cases of similar discoveries, the site of the cemetery was a natural ridge or hillock of no great altitude. The burials brought to light as the result of the excavations yielded, in at least four cases, urns of the usual cinerary form. They appear to have been simply set in the soil and covered over, without any protecting cist. A thin oval bronze blade with incised ornament was found in association with one of the deposits. Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xix (1884-5), pp. 114-17.
RCAHMS 1933
