Islay, Gruinart Farm
Inhumation (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Islay, Gruinart Farm
Classification Inhumation (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Gruinart Farm 1
Canmore ID 37373
Site Number NR26NE 20
NGR NR 271 681
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37373
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilchoman
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (May 1980)
NR26NE 20 271 681.
The skeleton of a young woman accompanied by a pottery vessel was discovered c.1964 during peat-cutting about 650m W of Gruinart Farm. They were found at a depth of 0.6m, but there is a local tradition that about 150 years ago, previous cutting in this area had removed some 1.2m-1.5m of peat, and this would mean that the burial was at that time about 2m below the surface. Most of the bones and the plain bucket-shaped urn are in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, but the skull and a piece of horn found with the body are in the Museum of Islay Life, Port Charlotte.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1980
(Information from Mr C E Booth, Bruichladdich).
