Uddingston, Kylepark
Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Uddingston, Kylepark
Classification Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 45043
Site Number NS66SE 14
NGR NS 6888 6097
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45043
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Bothwell (Hamilton)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Hamilton
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS66SE 14 6888 6097.
(NS 6888 6097) Bronze Age Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, (1967)
Two cinerary urns were found on 25th March 1885, about 70yds from the Clyde, by workmen levelling the ground prior to building a road opposite what is now 4 Kyle Park (Henderson and Waddell 1904). They lay in gravel, about 1' below the surface, inverted over bones. (These urns were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Robert Thomson in 1885: Accession nos EA 108 & EA 109.) Some 3 yds from the urns, the workmen found a quantity of bones, and excavations at the spot by Duncan recovered a few fragments of a third urn.
The findspot was located from the description above and surveyed by OS field surveyor (J L D) who produced no further information.
J D Duncan 1885; NMAS 1892 G Henderson and J J Waddell 1904; A Morrison 1968; Visited by OS (J L D) 21 December 1953.
A food vessel, containing a cremation, which was an item in a cemetery of cinerary urns at Kyle Park, is in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. (Accession no: '07-102a).
D D A Simpson 1965.
The cinerary urns now in the NMAS are classified by the RCAHMS as (a) Encrusted and (b) possibly Biconical. The third cinerary urn is now in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (Accession no: '07-102b). The food vessel noted by Simpson (1965) may have come from the cemetery.
RCAHMS 1978.
Note (1978)
NS 689 609. In 1885 two Cinerary Urns were discovered at Kylepark inverted over cremated bones; the urns, one an Encrusted and the other possibly a Biconical Urn, are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (PSAS, xix (1884-5), 337-40). A third and more fragmentary Cinerary Urn, now in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, and a deposit of bones were recovered at the same time. A Food Vessel (PI. 3c) containing a cremation, preserved in the same museum, may also have been part of this cemetery (TDGAS, xlii (1965), 40).
RCAHMS 1978
