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Easter Gellybank
Cinerary Urn
Site Name Easter Gellybank
Classification Cinerary Urn
Canmore ID 27886
Site Number NO10SW 16
NGR NO 1111 0013
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinross
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Kinross-shire
NO10SW 16 1111 0013.
A late Bronze Age overhanging-rim urn, inverted over calcined human bones was found on Easter Gellybank farm by Mr David Kennedy on 10th November, 1885. It was in a slight eminence probably reduced by ploughing near the fence in a field to the south of the road from Kinross to Cleish. Fragments of similar pottery had been previously turned up nearby. The urn was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities.
R B Begg 1886; J Abercromby 1907
The farm of Chanceinn (NO 1111 0013) is also known as Easter Gellybank. Enquiries at the farm proved negative, and it was not possible to locate the find spot from the information supplied.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 December 1963
Publication Account (1933)
Urn Burial, Easter Gellybank.
On l0th November 1885, a large cinerary urn was turned up by the plough on the farm of Easter Gellybank, . a little more than a mile to the south of the town of Kinross. The urn, which is now preserved in the National Museum of Antiquities, measures 16 ¼ inches in height by 12 3/8 inches in diameter. The discovery has been fully described in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xx. (1885-6), pp. 142-5.
RCAHMS 1933
