Crailinghall

NT62SE 12 698 220.

Bronze Age Food Vessel found at Crailinghall, "? cairns". (J A Smith 1873; J Anderson and G F Black 1888). Bronze Age "Miniature Cup" found at Crailinghall, "cairn."(J A Smith 1873; L Scott 1951). Both the Food Vessel and the cup are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland.

RCAHMS 1956.

Urn of reddish clay and rounded in form. It "... measures 2 inches in height by 1 3/4 inches across the mouth, the greatest diameter is 3 inches towards the upper part of the urn, where it is pierced with a pair of holes, 1 1/2 inches apart, on one side only, and it tapers downwards to a small base of about one inch across, - unfortunately it has been much chipped on its sides. The upper part is ornamented with a herringbone pattern, and the rest of the urn is plain. It was found along with a number of cists containing urns, in some excavations at Crailinghall, near Jedburgh, and was contained in a larger wide-mouthed cinerary urn of blackish clay, 4 1/2 inches in height, covered over with a rude pattern of a series of short lines, showing toothed or twisted cord markings.

J A Smith 1873.

Incense Cup from Crailing Hall, on R Teviot, 4 miles NE of Jedburgh. "In wide-mouthed cinerary urn 4 1/2ins high; other urns in cists near. Pair of string-holes on keel; comb."

L Scott 1951; J A Smith 1873.

"Urn of food-vessel type, 4 1/2 inches in height, imperfect, one side wanting, ornamented all down the side, with rudely formed herring-bone patterns - found in a tumulus at Crailinghall.." The only urn,from Crailinghall, in Kelso Museum.

J Anderson and G F Black 1888.

"An urn in Kelso Museum was found at Crailinghall in 1832 by a mason building a stone dyke, from a heap of stones."(Information from Mr W Laidlaw. The Abbey, Jedburgh).

J Anderson 1886

The above discoveries may have been made in one of the "tumuli" recorded as NT62SE 13, and 14 and NT72SW 4

Information from OS recorder (DT) 8 October 1957.

Enquiries at Crailinghall proved negative. No indications of cairns or tumuli were found in the vicinity of Crailinghall. Kelso Museum (see J Anderson and G F Black 1888 and J Anderson 1886) is now defunct.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 18 January 1967.