Harviestoun
Cist (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Knife (Flint)(Bronze Age)
Site Name Harviestoun
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Knife (Flint)(Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 48256
Site Number NS99NW 10
NGR NS 931 974
NGR Description NS c. 931 974
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48256
- Council Clackmannan
- Parish Tillicoultry (Clackmannanshire)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Clackmannan
- Former County Clackmannanshire
NS99NW 10 931 974.
(Centred NS 9326 9760) A cist was found at Harvieston about 1804, when the western approach to the house was being made. It contained a food vessel and a small oval flint knife. The food vessel was donated to the NMAS in 1962-3 by the Hon Mrs Wardlaw Ramsay.
RCAHMS 1933; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1895; 1965; NSA 1845.
No further information.
Visited by OS (J D) 16 October 1953.
Publication Account (1933)
Cist Burial, Harvieston.
A cist was discovered at Harvieston about the year 1804, when the western approach to the house was being made. It contained a finely decorated food-vessel 4 ½ inches in height, by 5 inches in diameter at the mouth, narrowing to 3 inches at the bottom. With it was a small oval flint knife, 1 ½ inches in length by 1 inch in breadth, formed of a flake, with the whitish chalk surface still covering one side, the other showing the bulb of percussion, and the edges worked sharp all round from the inner side of the flake only. Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxix (1894-5), p. 107.
RCAHMS 1933.
Note (1978)
Harvieston House NS c. 931 974 NS99NN 10
About 1804, during building of the W approach to Harvieston House, a cist, constaining a food vessel (NMAS no. L 1972.2) and a small flint knife, was found.
RCAHMS 1978
(NSA, viii, Clackmannan, 71-2; PSAS, xxix, 1894-5, 107, no.2; RCAHMS 1933, p.327, No. 620)
