A Bronze Age cemetery at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife

Joanna Close-Brooks (Author)

M Norgate (Author)

J N Graham Ritchie (Author)

Archibald Young (Contributor)

Dorothy A Lunt (Contributor)

C B Denston (Contributor)

J C McCawley (Contributor)


Keywords:
Burial, Cist Burial, Cremation Patches One Cist, Cemetery, Pig Bones, Inhumation, Iron, Urn Burial, Cremation
Period(s):
17th Century, Bronze Age

Abstract


NT 117863. The cemetery consisted of three short cists, an urn burial and two cremation patches. One cist contained a crouched inhumation, probably female, accompanied by pig bones; a second cist showed no trace of burial though phosphate analysis tended to suggest one. The third cist held a crouched inhumation 14C-dated in 17th century bc, a Food Vessel, slug knife, strike-a-light and piece of iron ore. An Enlarged Food Vessel containing a female cremation was inverted within a small stone setting. Appended is a description of a short cist burial with Food Vessel at Keavil, Fife. A R

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.104.121.136

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Published
30-11-1974
How to Cite
Close-Brooks, J., Norgate, M., Ritchie, J. N. G., Young, A., Lunt, D. A., Denston, C. B., & McCawley, J. C. (1974). A Bronze Age cemetery at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 104, 121–136. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.104.121.136
Issue
Vol. 104 (1974)
Section
Articles
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.104.121.136