Inchview, Bathgate
Beaker(S)
Site Name Inchview, Bathgate
Classification Beaker(S)
Canmore ID 47748
Site Number NS96NE 10
NGR NS 9856 6787
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47748
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Bathgate
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NS96NE 10 9856 6787.
(NS 9856 6787) Bronze Age Beakers found (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1973)
Two all-over corded type beakers, found in a sandpit 1 mile E of Bathgate, 100 yds S of the railway, and 50 yds W of the road to Blackburn, are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS). One, (Accession no: EG 47) was found about the 22nd February 1906, lying on its side about 43' below the summit level of the natural bank of sand and gravel. It contained only sand, and that around it was undisturbed. The other (Accession no: EG 53) was donated to the NMAS in 1920. No further details are given regarding its discovery.
L M Mann 1906; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1921; D L Clarke 1970
(Centred: NT 9856 6787) Discovery and location of the beakers (although still not precisely sited) are fully described above. The site is now occupied by disused sand quarries, cutting into a natural hillock.
Visited by OS (JLD) 17 February 1953
