Canmore Site 41189: LARGS, NELSON STREET - LARGS - CIST (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CREMATION(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CINERARY URN(S), MACE (STONE)
Description
Site Name | LARGS, NELSON STREET |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NS25NW 9 |
Broad Class | ARMOUR AND WEAPONS, RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY, CONTAINER, RELIGION OR RITUAL |
Site Type(s) | CIST (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CREMATION(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CINERARY URN(S), MACE (STONE) |
NGR | NS 2050 5963 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | NORTH AYRSHIRE |
Parish | LARGS |
Record created | 1989-03-14 |
Last updated | 2000-04-12 |
Archaeology Notes
NS25NW 9 2050 5963
NS 2050 5963 (information from A Kennedy, Ayr Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, letter, 9 September 1957). A Bronze Age burial ground was found at a building site in Nelson Street, Largs (later to become No 63, now renumbered 73). Material found consisted of a roughly circular cist, 2ft - 3ft in diameter and 1 1/2ft deep, built of rounded stones and covered by a sandstone flag, containing the remains of seven plain bucket-shaped cinerary urns, standing upwards and containing calcined bones. At least four collared urns were found nearby, inverted over cremations in holes. A mace-head also found was probably in one of the collared urns smashed by workmen. This macehead (Acc No LA 667) and seven urns (08-131 a-e and 09-32 a-b) are in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, donated in 1908 and 1909.
R Munro 1910; J G Scott letter, 5 December 1956; F E S Roe 1967; A Morrison 1968; OS 25" map (1972).
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