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East Rogerton
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric), Urn(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name East Rogerton
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric), Urn(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 44962
Site Number NS65NW 8
NGR NS 632 568
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44962
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish East Kilbride (South Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District East Kilbride
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS65NW 8 632 568.
(Approx NS 632 568) A very small cairn stood on a slight eminence about 15 chains NE of East Rogerton farm (ONB 1857-8). It was destroyed in 1789. In it were found five urns 'not of the ordinary shape'. They were about 18 ins high, 6 ins wide at the one end and 4 at the other; both ends were open. They were said, by the workmen, to be glazed and ornamented with flowers, and narrower in the middle than at either end. They stood upon smooth stones, about 3/4 yd apart, and placed in a circle. The top of each urn was covered with a thin piece of stone. They were all totally destroyed by the labourers.
Name Book 1857-8; D Ure 1793.
Possible, but discarded, stone circle just N of Rogerton but within the East Kilbride boundary.
J A Wilson 1929.
The ground on which this cairn was situated is now occupied by a War Department installation and is a 'prohibited area'. No further information was obtained regarding the finds, and no trace was seen of the alleged stone circle.
Visited by OS (J F C) 25 March 1954.
Note (1978)
Cairn, East Rogerton (Site)
In 1789, during the destruction of a small cairn situated some 300 m NE of the farm of East Rogerton, five 'urns', measuring about 0.5 m in height, were discovered (Ure 1793, 214; Name Book No. 25, p.11-12). They are said to have been disposed in a circle and to have been about 0.7 m apart; although the description of the vessels is not altogether clear, it is likely that they were Cinerary Urns.
RCAHMS 1978.
