Canmore Site 54841: OLD WINDY MAINS - HUMBIE (EAST LOTHIAN) - CIST(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CINERARY URN
Description
Site Name | OLD WINDY MAINS |
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Other Name(s) | WINDYMAINS |
Site Number | NT46SW 5 |
Broad Class | RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY, CONTAINER, RELIGION OR RITUAL |
Site Type(s) | CIST(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), CINERARY URN |
NGR | NT 4451 6410 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | EAST LOTHIAN |
Parish | HUMBIE (EAST LOTHIAN) |
Record created | 1988-05-23 |
Last updated | 2000-04-12 |
Archaeology Notes
NT46SW 5 4451 6410.
(NT 4451 6410) Bronze Age Cists found 1857 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1971)
Two cists were found in the autumn of 1857 when digging for sand on a knoll on Windymains farm. Each cist contained an inhumation accompanied by a beaker (Clarke's N3 and N/NR types, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS], together with one of the skulls, Acc Nos EG 8, EG 9 and ET 52 respectively).
In 1898 three jet buttons were donated to the NMAS (Acc No: EQ 256). They were found, accompanying a cinerary urn, when a cistern was being dug (at NT 4451 6410) on a small wooden knoll behind Old Windy Mains. At the same time, a cist containing an inhumation accompanied by fragments of an ornamented urn, apparently some 6 ins in height, was found.
R Forman 1862; D L Clarke 1970; J Anderson 1899; NMAS 1892
Fir Knowe, where the above-mentioned finds were made, is described in 1853 as 'a small knoll planted with trees. It has the appearance of an ancient camp, but no-one in the locality can give any information regarding it.'
Name Book 1853
No further information. Fir Knowe is natural.
Visited by OS (BS) 29 July 1975.
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