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HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

about 3 inches in length." In the parish of Creich two such groups are noted, one at
Carphin House (No. 146), in which fourteen out of twenty-two urns were placed singly
three feet apart in a row; and another at Craiglog (No. 147), where six were simply
crowded together. At Westwood, near Newport, (No. 274) nine or ten urns were
disposed on the circumference of a circle 14 feet in diameter, two of them being small
ones within larger vessels. The features common to five of these urn cemeteries -

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FIG. 9 - Distribution Map of Bronze Age Cemeteries so far as known, some only from old records.

Drummy Wood (No. 308), Westwood, Lawhead, and two in Creich parish,
have been summarised in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xiii (1878-9), p. 113, and they are
characteristic of all the examples noted above: the cinerary urns are nearly all of
the same form, they have similar ornamentation, they were set in the earth at slight
depths beneath the surface, and they were in most cases inverted over the cremated
remains. In a recent discovery at Cowdenbeath (No. 58), ¹ however, five urns had all
been set upright on their flat bases.
Two small cemeteries are recorded from the parish of Orwell in Kinross-shire,
that near Shanwell House (No. 580), where one of the four urns contained an
ornamented oval bronze blade (Fig. 17), and the other near the Standing Stones

1. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lxv (1930-1) pp. 261-9.

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