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Strathblane
Cinerary Urn (Pottery)(Prehistoric), Food Vessel Urn (Pottery)(Bronze Age)
Site Name Strathblane
Classification Cinerary Urn (Pottery)(Prehistoric), Food Vessel Urn (Pottery)(Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) St Kessog's Well
Canmore ID 44417
Site Number NS57NE 2
NGR NS 5567 7963
NGR Description Centred NS 5567 7963
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44417
- Council Stirling
- Parish Strathblane (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS57NE 2 c. 56 79.
A cinerary urn, 15" high and 14" in diameter was found when clearing away a mound near St Kessog's Well at Strathblane.
Helensburgh Natur Antiq Soc 1897.
A cordoned cinerary urn, 15 1/4" high by 13 1/2" diameter at the mouth, which was found containing burnt bones in a sand hillock in a garden at Strathblane (NS 5679) in 1898, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1901 by J Bruce. (Accession no: EA 159)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1902
(St Kessog's well: NS 557 796 - see NS57NE 51)
Note (1979)
Strathblane NS 56 79 NS57NE 2
A Food Vessel Urn (NMAS EA 159) containing a cremation was found in a garden at Strathblane when a sandy hillock was removed in 1898.
RCAHMS 1979
PSAS, xxxvi (1901-2), 592; Cowie 1978, 136,164
