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Forth And Clyde Canal, Glasgow Bridge
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible), Cinerary Urn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Forth And Clyde Canal, Glasgow Bridge
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible), Cinerary Urn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Cawdor Estate
Canmore ID 45281
Site Number NS67SW 8
NGR NS 6389 7293
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45281
- Council East Dunbartonshire
- Parish Cadder (Strathkelvin-du)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Strathkelvin
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS67SW 8 6389 7293.
(NS 6389 7293) Bronze Age Cinerary Urn found AD 1927 (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1971)
A collared cinerary urn was found on 26th March 1927, at a point 40 yds S of the Forth and Clyde Canal and 459 yds E of the Glasgow Bridge over the canal, by workmen making a cutting eastward through a long ridge of sand. The urn, which contained a cremation, was found about 6' below the ground level, on a layer of stones in a pit, which may have been under a mound of earth and stones, which Bryden suggests represented the base of a ruined round cairn some 20' in diameter. The urn was donated to Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (Accession no: '27-11).
R L Bryden 1927; A Morrison 1968.
No further information was found during field investigation. Find spot sited from description above.
Visited by OS (J F C) 15 February 1954.
Field Visit (August 1972)
Cairn (possible), Cawder Estate (Site).
In 1927 a Cinerary Urn containing a cremation was found during gravel-working on the Cawder Estate at a point 420 m E of Glasgow Bridge on the Forth and Clyde Canal and 36 m S of the Canal. In order to cover (Bryden 1927) the burial deposit, the top of the gravel ridge appeared to have been artificially heightened by the addition of a mound of stones and earth measuring about 6·1 m in diameter and 1·1 m in height. The urn is now in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, but the cairn has been completely destroyed.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1972.
NS 638 729
Note (1982)
Cawder Estate NS 638 729 NS67SW 8
In 1927 a possible cairn was destroyed by gravel-quarrying 420m E of Glasgow Bridge; it measured 6.1 m in diameter by 1.1 m in height, and a Cinerary Urn (GAGM '27-11) containing a cremation was found at a depth of 0.7m below its base.
RCAHMS 1982
(Bryden 1927; Morrison 1968, 118-19, no. 125; RCAHMS 1978, p, 47, No. 28)
