Burrance
Classifications: Cinerary Urn(Period Unassigned)
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Location Details
Local authority: Dumfries And Galloway
Parish: Lochmaben
Former region: Dumfries And Galloway
Former district: Annandale And Eskdale
Former county: Dumfries-Shire
Further details
Site number: NY08NE 8
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 66241
Related resources
Burrance, NY08NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Burrance, NY08NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
1 Note
Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 728434
NY08NE 8 c. 090 858.
An urn, ornamented round the top, and containing human remains, was turned up from about 6in. below the surface, in a field on Burrance Farm in 1871. It fell to pieces on being moved.
The Antiquary 1871
There is no local knowledge of this discovery and no evidence of a burial mound in the vicinity of Burrance Farm.
Visited by OS (JP) 4 October 1972.
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| 551 166/1/1 | Archaeological site card index ('495' cards) | Sub-Group Level |  |
| SC 2469913 | Burrance, NY08NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto | Item Level |  |
| SC 2469914 | Burrance, NY08NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto | Item Level |  |
References
Antiquary, The. (1871) The Antiquary 1 1870-1 Page(s): 120-1
RCAHMS. (1997a) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh. Page(s): 107, 295, no. 523 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.7.DUM
