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Sherifflatts
Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Pygmy Cup (Bronze Age)
Site Name Sherifflatts
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Pygmy Cup (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 47467
Site Number NS93NE 13
NGR NS 973 373
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47467
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Covington And Thankerton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS93NE 13 973 373.
A food vessel, several cinerary urns, and a number of unassociated cremation deposits were discovered in 1878 during the levelling of a gravel knoll to the S of Sherifflatts (NS 973 373). The food vessel was found in a small cist consisting of four slabs and a capstone, and two cordoned urns were found inverted over cremation deposits. Two other vessels from the site are more difficult to classify and may be interpreted either as small urns of cordoned urn affinities or as degenerate food vessels; one was found with a cremation deposit in a grave-pit which measured about 1.1m in depth and was covered by a large stone. The other was found with a compact cremation deposit and an accessory vessel. Cremation deposits, some with urn fragments and others unassociated, were found during the trenching of the knoll; one of the cremations had been laid inside a setting of three slabs. All the finds, together with parts of a shale disc, also from the site, are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession nos: EA 27-30, EC 20, EE 13).
RCAHMS 1978; J Anderson 1879; A Morrison 1968.
No further information. Extensive gravel workings in the area may have removed the knoll.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 22 January 1968.
