Pitreavie
Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Short Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Flake (Flint)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel(S) (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool) (Flint)(Bronze Age)
Site Name Pitreavie
Classification Cremation(S) (Bronze Age), Short Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Flake (Flint)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel(S) (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool) (Flint)(Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 51004
Site Number NT18SW 8
NGR NT 1120 8449
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51004
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SW 8 1120 8449.
(NT 1120 8449) Bronze Age Cists found AD 1885 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1967)
A cemetery of six short cists (Munro alleges that there were seven) was found in August 1885 in a sandpit near the intersection of the Inverkeithing road by the Dunfermline-Queensferry railway. Four cists each contained a food-vessel and possible cremation; one urn was accompanied by a flint flake, another by a discoidal flint scraper. The fifth cist was empty, and the sixth, smallest, cist contained only cremated bones. One food vessel is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no EE71); the others are in Dunfermline Museum (Accession nos 1968. 463-5). The flint flake (1968:462a), scraper (1968. 462b) and some burnt bone, are also in Dunfermline Museum (information from M Norgate, Dunfermline Museum, 9 October 1972).
H Beveridge 1886; R Munro 1899; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1896
The site of this Bronze Age burial ground is now covered by chicken runs.
Visited by OS (AC) 12 March 1959
Publication Account (1933)
Groups of Short Cist Burials.
(1) Towards the end of the year 1922 a small group of three slab-lined graves was discovered in Ferniehill sandpit, which lies on Primrose Farm, about 1 mile east of the hamlet of Pettymuir and about 2 ½ miles south-south-east of Dunfermline. The site is on the summit of a sandy ridge a little above the 100 feet contour line. See Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lvii (1922-3), p. 299.
(2) About half a mile north-east of (1), on the estate of Pitreavie and "close to the intersection of the road to Inverkeithing by the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway ... near the summit of a gentle rising ground about 100 yards south of the railway line," a group of six short cists was discovered in 1885. They are described in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xx (1885-6), pp. 240-244.
RCAHMS 1933
