Balgone Heughs

NT58NE 8 c. 560 821.

(Area: NT 560 821) "A remarkable discovery of a number of bronze vessels...was made in the autumn of 1848...in trenching a piece of mossy ground, situated under a peculiar ridge of trap rock about a mile and a half due south of North Berwick Law, on the Balgone Estate... The whole ground, extending to above twenty acres, was formerly a morass. It had been partially drained of late years, in consequence of which the mean level has suck three or four feet. In the centre of this morass the relics were found, consisting of a large pot or cauldron, several tripods, goblets, and various fragments of thin plates of bronze, all much corroded. One of the bronze goblets lay within the large cauldron, and the whole were found close together, at a depth of about three feet from the surface, apparently just as they had been thrown into the morass, probably not less than seventeen centuries ago."

D Wilson 1851

A cooking pot of brass, 6" x 6", with a straight handle 6" long, ornamented by six sets of concentric circles, found at Balgone, was present to the National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland (NMAS) by Sir G Grant Suttie in 1859.

NMAS 1892

In autumn 1848, "under a peculiar ledge of grey rocks", in the park of Balgone, near the house and about 1 1/2 miles due S of N Berwick Law, were found a number of various sized camp kettles, one very large and containing a goblet. Details of part of the find were:- 4 bronze tripod pots, with loops at the necks for handles: a bronze pot 6" high and 6" across the mouth, with a straight handle 6" long, and ornamented by a row of 6 concentric circles: a shallow thin bronze basin: portion of a larger shallow bronze vessel: 2 bronze tripod vessels with spouts and handles. The above donations to the NMAS, were exhibited to the Society, 14th June, 1859, by Sir George Grant Suttie.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1862

No further information was found.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 15 November 1962

Bronze Basin - DU 9.

(Undated) information in NMRS.