Gargunnock Bridge
Pitcher(S)
Site Name Gargunnock Bridge
Classification Pitcher(S)
Alternative Name(s) River Forth
Canmore ID 46077
Site Number NS79NW 30
NGR NS 714 951
NGR Description NS c. 714 951
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Gargunnock
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS79NW 30 c. 714 951
Two earthenware pitchers, one with a yellowish brown glaze, measuring 13 3/4" in height and 10 1/2" in widest diameter, the other with a fine bright green glaze, and the neck encircled by a number of raised mouldings, measuring 12 1/4" in height and 9 1/8" in greatest diameter, dredged up from the Forth, near Gargunnock, Stirlingshire.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1932
Fourteenth-century ware. Exact find-spot unknown.
Information from S Maxwell, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), 1953.
Gargunnock Bridge (NS79NW 81) is at NS 71476 95180. The River Forth here forms the boundary between the parishes of Gargunnock and Kincardine (Stirling), to the S and N respectively.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 June 2006.
