Summary

Crumb of brown pottery from Horsbrugh Castle Farm, Peeblesshire

Accession Number

X.EQ 814

Other references

Original description

Short cist at Horsburgh Castle Farm, Peeblesshire. Crumb of brown pottery. 0.5" x 0.4". Trevor Cowie notes, 18.6.2014: Horsbrugh Castle Farm, Innerleithen parish, Peebles (NGR NT 2899 3902). Finds from short cist excavated in March 1974, located on summit of a natural gravel knoll with no sign of any artificial cairn or mound. The cist measured internally 1.05 m by 0.6 m and 0.5 m deep, and had been covered by two heavy capstones. On its floor lay the remains of the crouched inhumation of a ? male, about 18 years old, apparently interred in a skeletonised or partly skeletonised state, accompanied by a flint knife (X.EQ 811). Two further burials, both cremations, were found in the excavated area. Cremation 1 (of a 30 - 40 years old ? female) occupied a circular pit 0.6 m across by 0.2 m deep, cut partly into the gravel subsoil and partly into the upper fill of the cist pit. A small potsherd was found with the cremation, which had a small flat stone embedded in its top. Cremation 2 (containing the remains of two persons, a child, about 6 years old and an adult) was in a deposit of soil banked up against the outer side of the W capstone, occupying the space between it and a small stone slab, propped upright against the side of the cist pit. A burnt fragment of unworked antler tine (X.EQ 812) was found with it. The cremations were deposited in the Dept of Physical Anthropology, Cambridge University. Petersen, F, Shepherd IAG and Tuckwell, AN 'A short cist at Horsbrugh Castle Farm, Peeblesshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 105 (1972-74), 43-62.'; see also RCAHMS NT23NE 29.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Horsburgh Castle Farm, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

1974

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

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Image

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