Jedburgh, High Street
Cist (Period Unassigned), Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S), Food Vessel
Site Name Jedburgh, High Street
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn(S), Food Vessel
Canmore ID 57031
Site Number NT62SE 22
NGR NT 6502 2074
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/57031
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Jedburgh
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT62SE 22 6506 2074.
(Area NT 6503 2073) About 1815, a cist measuring 4' 6" long and 2' 6" broad, was discovered in a garden adjoining the west side of the High Street, Jedburgh. It contained a large urn, and three smaller ones, and fragments of bones.
In the same garden, which in some of the ancient charters is styled 'Temple Garden', footings of 'ancient buildings' have been found at a depth of 6 feet below the surface.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
A food vessel type of urn, 5 inches in height, and now in Kelso Museum, is one of four found in 1815 in a cist, in what is now the Boston Manse garden. Two others are in the Antiquarian Society Museum, purchased 1874.
J Anderson 1886; J Anderson and G F Black 1888.
Four food vessels found in a cist at 'Friars, Jedburgh'. One is now in the National Museum Antiquities Scotland (NMAS), and one of the others is in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.
RCAHMS 1956.
Centred NT 6502 2074. No further information as to the exact location of these finds was obtained. Boston Manse, no longer a manse, is at NT 6502 2076.
Visited by OS(EGC) 4 January 1963.