Moredun
Cist (Iron Age), Brooch(S) (Iron Age), Pin (Iron Age)
Site Name Moredun
Classification Cist (Iron Age), Brooch(S) (Iron Age), Pin (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Leat Hill
Canmore ID 51695
Site Number NT26NE 26
NGR NT 2861 6955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51695
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT26NE 26 2861 6955.
(NT 2861 6955) Iron Age Cist found AD 1903 (NAT)
OS 1:1250 map (1969)
A cist was found on the 22nd August 1903 while digging sand on the crown of a field at Moredun called Leat Hill. Its precise spot was surveyed accurately and marked on the relevant 6" plan. It lay E-W and was constructed as shown on plan; it contained two crouched inhumations, probably female, with their heads at opposite ends of the cist. There were three iron objects in the cist - a projecting ring-headed pin and a pennanular brooch at one end, and another brooch towards the middle. Perhaps the first two objects belonged to one burial and the brooch at the other. Sticking to the under part of the brooch were the remains of a woven garment or wrapping in which the body had been buried.
These finds, which are quite distinctive objects, provide a date for the burials in the late 1st or 2nd c AD (J N G Ritchie and A Ritchie 1972). They were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession nos: EQ 274-277).
F R Coles 1904; W Turner 1915; E D Dennison 1917; T Bryce 1904
The findspot of this cist was located to NT 2861 6955 from the NMAS 6" record sheet. No further finds have been made in this sandpit. No further information.
Visited by OS (JLD) 15 December 1953
