<< Text Pages >> Lentran (Bridge of Allan) - Cist in Scotland in Stirling
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lentran (Bridge of Allan) Alternative Name: Annfield (Stirlingshire)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.935 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Stirling Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Stirling Nearest Village: Bridge of Allan
Map Ref: NS80039720
Latitude: 56.152344N Longitude: 3.93286W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cist in Stirling
Canmore ID 47129 records this now lost cist. Their entry for 1957 reads: "It is recorded (J E Alexander 1870) that a cist containing a skeleton and an urn was found during the digging of foundations for a house then known as Annfield, but now renamed Lentran." Another entry from 1979 adds: "A cist containing a skeleton and an 'urn' was found about 1867 when house foundations were being dug."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this cist - see their entry for Lentran, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, which quotes from "J.E. Alexander’s (1868) essay on the Fairy Knowe, where he told: 'It is right, however, to mention, that a few years ago, in digging the foundations of the house of Annfield, Bridge of Allan, at nine feet from the surface, there was found in the sand, and apparently undisturbed, a fine cist, containing the skeleton of a young female; and under the right arm was a small clay urn, corroborating the opinion of Professor Innes, that in many cases the so-called urn was simply a domestic jar to contain food for the deceased.'"
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