Tulliallan Nursery
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Dagger (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Tulliallan Nursery
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Dagger (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Inch Farm; Tulliallan Estate; "lady Keith's Porter Lodge"
Canmore ID 48066
Site Number NS98NW 10
NGR NS 9485 8700
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48066
- Council Fife
- Parish Tulliallan
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NS98NW 10 9485 8700.
(NS 9484 8700 and NS 9486 8700) Cists found (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1966)
(NS 9484 8700) Stone Coffins and Urns found AD 1856 (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1948)
No information was found on the 1856 discovery, the relevant ONB having been destroyed by enemy action during the 1939-45 war. In 1935, a food vessel, found in a short cist at NS 9486 8700, about 1925-7 (Information from J Brougham, Tulliallan Nursery) was donated to the NMAS. Mr Brougham added that the cist, which was found while excavating for sand, also contained a fragment of skull and other bones. The find-spot is on the E slope of a natural spur (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1935).
Visited by OS (JLD) 16 October 1953.
The 1856 discovery is reported to have taken place "in a sandy knoll... directly opposite to Lady Keith's Porter Lodge". One cist lay E-W, measured 1.1m in length, was covered by a slab, and had evidently contained a flexed inhumation accompanied by a flint object and what may have been a dagger. These remains were apparently replaced in situ.
Six smaller and shallower cists were found disposed around the first; each of them contained an "urn", and fifty pieces of what may have
been ironpan-coated cremated bone were found in one of them.
(MS/662/11; Stirling Observer 13 March 1856; Alloa Advertiser 15 March 1856).
