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Luce Sands
Flint Scatter (Prehistoric), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Bronze Age)
Site Name Luce Sands
Classification Flint Scatter (Prehistoric), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 61300
Site Number NX15SW 17
NGR NX 119 536
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61300
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Stoneykirk
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX15SW 17 119 536.
In 1948 the remains of three Cinerary Urns were discovered in the sand- dunes at Luce Bay. The first was found beside a spread of gravel and fractured stones, which contained a few chips of flint; only fragments of the rim and some burnt bones survived. The second urn lay 0.9m to the N on the edge of the gravel spread; it had been inverted, and covered a cremation with a jet bead. Fragments of a third urn and three flint tools were found about 35m to the NE, where there was a concentration of large rounded stones on the gravel surface. Numerous sherds of Early Bronze Age pottery and pieces of flint (both tools and waste material) lay strewn around the site.
RCAHMS 1987.
