Orchard
Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Orchard
Classification Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Orchard Farm
Canmore ID 67903
Site Number NY48SW 2
NGR NY 405 800
NGR Description NY c. 405 800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Canonbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY48SW 2 c. 405 800
A collared cinerary urn, found on Orchard farm (NY48SW 35), and presented to Langholm Museum last century by Dr Carlyle, is now held in Dumfries Museum under accession no. 1963/22. (Orchard farm: NY 405 800).
A E Truckell 1966; A Morrison 1968
Langholm Museum is now defunct and the contents transferred to Dumfries. No further information.
Visited by OS (JP) 13 January 1971.
This Collared Urn is of the secondary series, North Western style, and form V. It measures 12" (30.5cm) in diameter at the mouth and is decorated (on the collar) with twisted-cord filled triangles enclosed above and below by single twisted-cord lines, (on the neck) with roughly-executed twisted-cord lozenge/zigzag design, and (on the internal rim bevel) with twisted-cord zigzag.
I H Longworth 1984.
Note (1981)
Orchard NY c. 40 80 NY48SW 2
In the 19th century a Collared Urn (DUMFM 1963/22) was found on the farm of Orchard.
RCAHMS 1981
(Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 575; DES, 1966, 23; Morrison 1968, 115-16)
Note (11 July 1995)
NY c. 405 800 NY48SW 2
The Dumfries Museum accession number for the Collared Urn from Orchard Farm is DUMFM: 1963.32, and not as noted above.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 11 July 1995.
Orchard Farm. Listed as 'burial'.
RCAHMS 1997.