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'Criagkennochie'
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Criagkennochie'
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Greenmount
Canmore ID 52849
Site Number NT28NW 7
NGR NT 23 86
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Burntisland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT28NW 7 23 86.
On an old estate map covering the Greenmount (NT 2380 8656) area, there is marked on the S side of Craigkennochie 'an artificial cairn probably a place of sepulture' (A Young 1924).
RCAHMS 1933; A Young 1924.
No traces of this cairn was seen: the area is now built over.
Visited by OS (A C) 13 March 1959.
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
