A Bronze Age cairn and rapier find from Swaites Hill, Cloburn Quarry, South Lanarkshire. Issue 1 (March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gordon, Douglas; McKinstry, Liam
• Is Part Of: Scottish archaeological journal. Volume 41:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2019-03
• Subjects: Bronze Age -- Rapier -- Kerbed Cairn -- Short Cist -- Cremation; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 936.11
• DOI: 10.3366/saj.2019.0105
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-5767

Abstract

Abstract : Rathmell Archaeology Ltd carried out the excavation of a disturbed kerbed cairn at Swaites Hill, Cloburn Quarry, South Lanarkshire. An inner and outer kerb were noted: the inner revealed two short cists, one containing two cremation burials. A third disturbed cremation burial with associated cordoned urn was present within cairn material between the inner and outer kerbs. A second urn and further cremated human bone deposits were found in the upper cairn material. The discovery of a Middle Bronze Age rapier within re-deposited cairn material hints at even more complexity; however, the full picture was sadly obscured by eighteenth to nineteenth century disturbance.