Lunanhead
Classifications: Burial Ground(Prehistoric),Cist(Bronze Age),Human Remains(Prehistoric),PotteryBeaker(Bronze Age),JetNecklace(Prehistoric),PotteryFood Vessel(Bronze Age)
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Location Details
Local authority: Angus
Parish: Forfar
Former region: Tayside
Former district: Angus
Former county: Angus
Further details
Site number: NO45SE 12
Unique identifier (UID): 33756
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Lunanhead, NO45SE 12, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Lunanhead, NO45SE 12, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
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Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 689518
NO45SE 12 4774 5237.
(NO 4774 5237) Bronze Age Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, (1975)
Bronze Age cists, both long and short, many containing grave-goods, have been found in this area over the period from the construction of the railway in the early 19th century to 1941. (See also NO45SE 35.)
One cist, 5' to 6' long, found in 1877, contained a crescentic jet necklace. Another, found c. 1852 measured only 3' to 4' long but also contained a necklace. One, 4'8" long, found in 1877, contained a food vessel while another 3'8" long contained a beaker. Many are known to have contained only human remains. Site is now built over.
A Jervise 1859; W Galloway 1878; J T Ewen 1942.
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References
Ewen J T. (1942) 'Two cists at Lunanhead, Forfar', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 76 1941-2 Page(s): 128-30 illust
Galloway W. (1878b) 'Notice of two cists at Lunan-Head, near Forfar, containing remains of unburnt skeletons, etc', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 12 1876-8 Page(s): 288-300 illust
Jervise A. (1859b) 'Notices descriptive of the localities of certain sculptured stone monuments in Forfarshire, &c. (Part 1)', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 2 1854-7 Page(s): 190
Morrison A. (1979a) 'A Bronze Age burial site at South Mound, Houston, Renfrewshire', Glasgow Archaeol J 6 1979 Page(s): 26
RCAHMS. (1978e) The archaeological sites and monuments of Lunan Valley, Montrose Basin, Angus District, Tayside Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 4. Edinburgh. Page(s): 12, No. 61, 62 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.2.ARC(4)