Dunfermline, Aberdour Road
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Cremation(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunfermline, Aberdour Road
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Cremation(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Easter Pitcorthie
Canmore ID 50851
Site Number NT18NW 13
NGR NT 1173 8637
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50851
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18NW 13 1173 8637.
Four cists and two isolated cremation deposits were found while levelling at a housing estate on October 1972, about 350m NE of Easter Pitcorthie.
Cist 1 was aligned ENE-WSW and measured 0.8m x 0.46m x about 0.45m deep; it contained the crouched inhumation of an adolescent and several pig bones. Two of the stones of cist 2 had been dislodged before excavation; it was aligned NE-SW and measured 0.6m x 0.38m x 0.3m deep. It had probably contained an inhumation. Cist 3, also aligned NE-SW, measured 1.02m x 0.54m x about 0.5m deep; in it were found the crouched inhumation of an adolescent male, a food vessel, a slug-knife, a flint strike-a-light and a piece of haematite.
A small cist-like setting protected an enlarged food vessel inverted over a cremation deposit. Two deposits of cremated bones were also found; one apparently inserted into a small, possibly stone-lined, depression was associated with a fragmentary bone pin.
The finds were deposited in Dunfermline Museum.
J Close-Brooks, M Norgate and J N G Ritchie 1972; Information from M Norgate letter, 9 October 1972.
NT 1173 8637. Site surveyed at 1:1250.
Visited by OS (JP) 16 October 1972
