Whitecleuch
Chain (Silver)(Pictish)
Site Name Whitecleuch
Classification Chain (Silver)(Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Brocklaw Rig
Canmore ID 46402
Site Number NS81NW 5
NGR NS 811 198
NGR Description NS c. 811 198
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Crawfordjohn
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS81NW 5 c. 811 198.
A massive Pictish silver chain of 22 pairs of large circular links and a broad open ring, the latter engraved with typical symbols (J A Smith 1875), which may have fastened the two ends to form a choker neck ornament, from Whitecleugh, is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (Accession no: FC 150).
J G Clark 1880; NMAS Catalogue 1892
It was found in May 1869 in the side of a drain about 135 yds N of the Dumfriesshire county boundary, 1 1/2 miles, measuring along that boundary, W of Crawick Water, and 1 mile S of the "old camp" near Shieldholm (NS82SW 2). (Smith erroneously gives the provenance as "in the district adjoining Drumlanrig Castle"- NX 851 992).
F T Wainwright 1955
Area centred NS 811 198. Sited from topographical description above. A more exact location could not be made.
Visited by OS (JD) 16 July 1955.
