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Burntisland, Greenmount House
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Burntisland, Greenmount House
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 52789
Site Number NT28NW 21
NGR NT 2380 8656
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52789
- Council Fife
- Parish Burntisland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT28NW 21 2380 8656.
(NT 2380 8656) A number of cinerary urns were found together when building Greenmount. They were broken in excavating and given to Mr Paton of Glasgow Museum. Slabs of stone covered the tops. It is thought that there were also some flint arrowheads.
An old estate map, seen by Young (1913) marks and describes the place where these were found as a tumulus.
A Young 1913; RCAHMS 1933.
Greenmount is now a hotel. There is no trace of a tumulus or cairn in the locality.
Visited by OS (A C) 13 March 1959.
No further information.
Visited by OS (J P) 24 June 1974.
Publication Account (1933)
Tumulus and Cinerary Urns.
An urn, which is now in Kirkcaldy Museum, was found when digging the foundations of the house known as ‘The Binn’. “Previous to the finding of this urn, in building Greenmount - another good site - a number of these urns were found together. They were much broken in excavating, but were given to Mr. Paton of Glasgow Museum. Slabs of stone had covered the tops, and Miss K. J. Kirke, Hilton, thinks there were also some flint arrow-heads. I have seen an old estate map on which the place where these were found is shown as a conical tumulus, described as such. On the same map at the base of the south side of Craigkennochie there is marked ‘an artificial cairn probably a place of sepulture’.”- Young's History of Burntisland, pp. 14-15.
"The Binn" and Greenmount are in the north-east neighbourhood of Burntisland.
RCAHMS 1933
