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Glasgow, Blairbeth Golf Course
Cist (Prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, Blairbeth Golf Course
Classification Cist (Prehistoric), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 44960
Site Number NS65NW 7
NGR NS 6175 5899
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44960
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Carmunnock (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS65NW 7 6175 5899.
(NS 6175 5899) Cist found 1787 (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
Cist, Blairbeth Golf Course (Site): On what was formerly Mill Farm, a cist, measuring about 2.0m in length and 0.6m in depth, was discovered seventy years before the compilation of the OS Name Books in 1857-8; it contained an 'urn', but there is no further information about the vessel or the burial-ritual.
Name Book 1857-8; RCAHMS 1978, visited 1973.
When visited in 1954, the find-spot of the cist lay in a ploughed field. No surface finds were made, and no additional information added.
Visited by OS (J F C) 25 March 1954.
