Summary

Toggle or handle plate of bone, small and perforated, found with human remains in an urn in a cairn in Stackyardfield, Gourlaw, Midlothian, 2000 - 1500 BC

Accession Number

X.EA 166

Other references

Original description

CINERARY URNS OF CLAY: Small perforated pendant of bone, found with incinerated bones in urn (164) in the Stackyardfield, Gourlaw, Midlothian. [MoS description] Dead and sometimes buried. From inhumation to cremation. Burnt grave goods and fasteners. (21) Pins & toggles, Cairnpapple, Gourlaw, Woodhead, Kinneil Mill and Over Migvie. 2050 - 1500 BC. [Scran caption] This bone handle plate or toggle was found with cremated human remains in an urn, buried in a cairn at Gourlaw at Lasswade in Midlothian. The burial dates from between 2000 and 1500 BC. The rectangular piece of bone has a curved cross section. Four holes have been drilled through it. Date: Between 2000 and 1500 BC. Material: Bone. Dimensions: Length: 26 mm. Reference - Clarke, D.V., Cowie, T.G., & Foxon, Andrew (eds). Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. Edinburgh: National Museums of Antiquities of Scotland, 1985, p 294.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Stackyardfield, Gourlaw, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1905

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

J.M. Brockley

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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