Lunanhead
Burial Ground (Prehistoric), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Human Remains(S) (Prehistoric), Beaker (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Necklace(S) (Jet)(Prehistoric)
Site Name Lunanhead
Classification Burial Ground (Prehistoric), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Human Remains(S) (Prehistoric), Beaker (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Necklace(S) (Jet)(Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 33756
Site Number NO45SE 12
NGR NO 4774 5237
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33756
- Council Angus
- Parish Forfar
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO45SE 12 4774 5237.
(NO 4774 5237) Bronze Age Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, (1975)
Bronze Age cists, both long and short, many containing grave-goods, have been found in this area over the period from the construction of the railway in the early 19th century to 1941. (See also NO45SE 35.)
One cist, 5' to 6' long, found in 1877, contained a crescentic jet necklace. Another, found c. 1852 measured only 3' to 4' long but also contained a necklace. One, 4'8" long, found in 1877, contained a food vessel while another 3'8" long contained a beaker. Many are known to have contained only human remains. Site is now built over.
A Jervise 1859; W Galloway 1878; J T Ewen 1942.
Note (1978)
Lunanhead 2 NO 473 519 NO45SE 12
Excavations for the railway about 1852 revealed several cists 'about 1 mile (1.6km) NE' of Forfar. Fragments of bone were found in all the cists except for one, which contained an 'urn' and what may have been a jet necklace.
RCAHMS 1978
(Jervise 1857, 190)
Note (1978)
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The removal of gravel from a knoll NE of Lunanhead, called the Dog's Knowe, has led to the discovery of at least six cists. Little was recorded of two cists which were found about 1857 and 1874 respectively, but two, which came to light in 1877, are better documented. The first contained an inhumation with a jet necklace (NMAS EG 87) and was covered by two superimposed cap-stones; the other held an inhumation with a Food Vessel (NMAS EQ 18) and had been buried in a pit about 3m deep. Two further cists were discovered in 1941: a Beaker (NMAS EG 76) and an inhumation were recovered from one; the other contained an inhumation accompanied by several fragments of pottery which have subsequently been lost.
RCAHMS 1978
(Galloway 1878; Ewen 1942.)
