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<< Text Pages >> Bargeddie Food Vessel Cemetery - Barrow Cemetery in Scotland in South Lanarkshire

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bargeddie Food Vessel Cemetery
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.2 km away from the location you searched for.

County: South Lanarkshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
 Nearest Village: Cambuslang
Map Ref: NS672610
Latitude: 55.823922N  Longitude: 4.121363W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Fieldwork at Newton Farm, Cambuslang (NGR NS 672 610) was undertaken in advance of housing development in 2005—6. A cluster of six shallow Neolithic pits were excavated, and a collection of 157 round-based, carinated bowl sherds and a quern fragment were recovered from them. The pits produced a date range of 3700 to 3360 cal BC.

Neolithic Pits, a Bronze Age Cremation and an Early Iron Age Ring-Ditch at Newton Farm, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire by Leonora O'brien, Victoria Clements, Mike Roy, Neil Macnab, Alan Duffy, Rob Engl, Fraser Hunter, Rachel Ives, Ann Macsween, Jackaline Robertson, Suerc, Graeme Carruthers And Attila Csaba

Fieldwork at Newton Farm, Cambuslang (NGR NS 672 610) was undertaken in advance of housing development in 2005—6. A cluster of six shallow Neolithic pits were excavated, and a collection of 157 round-based, carinated bowl sherds and a quern fragment were recovered from them. The pits produced a date range of 3700 to 3360 cal BC. Most of the pits yielded burnt material, and one of the pits showed evidence of in situ burning. The pottery may form 'structured deposits'. A Bronze Age adult cremation placed in a Food Vessel dated to 3610±30 BP (2040—1880 cal BC) was set in a wider landscape of single and multiple cremations and inhumations on the river terraces overlooking the Clyde. A possible unurned cremation was also identified. This was cut by the course of a small ring-ditch dated to the very late Bronze Age or early Iron Age 2520±30 BP (800—530cal BC).

Scottish Archaeological Journal
Vol. 31, No. 1/2 (2009), pp. 1-31 (31 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27917626?newaccount=true&read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


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Food Vessels. Excavated in 1852 from the Bronze Age burial site near Drumpellier by Andy B on Thursday, 01 November 2018
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Not the same site, but nearby: Kenny Brophy writes

On a recent (2013) visit to the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge, I encountered probably the most explicitly urban prehistorical museum display I have ever seen. A grey-based museum display case, with four Bronze Age Food Vessels on pedestals (as well as a couple of random bronze axes) was a surprising discovery in a museum that celebrates North Lanarkshire’s amazing industrial heritage. The Food Vessels were filled with scraps of bones. But even more surprising was a big picture above the display that showed the location of where these pottery vessels were found. Because this is what the findspot looked like in 2008. It says so on the photo: ‘The bronze age burial urns and Food Vessels on display were discovered here’, written beneath the picture of a detached house and garden in Stewart Avenue in Bargeddie.

This is a strange display but it suggests an amazing and timeless connection between some of the ancient inhabitants of North Lanarkshire, and twentieth century middle class house dwellers in a suburb of Glasgow. No explanation is given of why this photo adorns the display, and little information accompanies the Food Vessels either. A simple notice reads:

Food Vessels. Excavated in 1852 from the Bronze Age burial site near Drumpellier. 11 stone coffins were found, each containing fragments of human bone and a ceramic pot containing a brown dust residue. Approximately 4000 years old.

This begs more questions than it answers. How did the four Food Vessels get here? Was the bone (which did not look cremated) in the pots genuine? What on earth was that brown dust? And what does all of this have to do with a modern house and street? Perhaps it as simple as this: the pots were literally found in the location beneath this house, and so are now displayed metaphorically beneath it.

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https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/coffins-mathematically-arranged/
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