[{"id": 143453, "created": "2020-07-08T14:54:21.665050", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84902, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-07-08T15:22:03.191164", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "NT 352;999", "Site": "FIFE;METHILHILL;ASHGROVE FARM", "CollHist": "Kirkcaldy Museum\r\nHistory\r\nPresented by Fife County Council after treatment and conservation work at the NMA, Edinburgh", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Flat dagger with central rivet-notch and two rivet-holes. Three rivets still in position. Traces of sheath of animal skin on blade and of horn hilt around rivets\r\n(2) Two rivets from near the top of the hilt plate (3)\r\nOther\r\n(3) Horn hilt, surviving as two horn plates, with rivet-holes\r\n(4) Pommel carved out of a single piece of \"ivory\" - probably from a tooth of the sperm whale.\r\n(5) Beaker (Clarke's S4 Group)\r\n(6) Sherds of a Food Vessel", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 30.9.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Henshall (1963-64) 166-179\r\n(b) Henshall (1968) 184 N\u00b0 7 Fig 41, 7a-j\r\n(c) Coles (1968-69) 90, 99\r\n(d) Clarke II (1970) 406 Fig. 1016 517 N\u00b0 1662.1\r\n(e) Gerloff (1975) 43 N\u00b0 27", "Circumstances": "Found in 1963 during construction work on a housing scheme at Ashgrove Farm. Three or four cists were discovered. The discovery of the first cist was reported to the Department of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews and was excavated by Professor L.H. Butler and Mr and Mrs R.J. Adam. Cist one was found in the front garden of a house in Block 14. It contained a crouched inhumation covered by a thin layer of decayed plant material, which formed a deeper deposit over the chest. The dagger (1) with its horn hilt-plates (3) and \"ivory\" pommel (4) was partly embedded in the thick deposit. A Beaker (5) lay on its side against the E slab of the cist. Cist two lay under what is now the site of a house in Block 10, 170 ft ESE of Cist 1. It was ransacked before it could be examined, but small pieces of bone and sherds of a Food Vessel (6) were found in the cist and on the ground nearby. Cist three was found in the front garden of a house in Block 10, 32ft NW of Cist 2. The soil within it was riddled by the workment but nothing was found. A large slab found some days before Cist 1 was recognised was probably the capstone of a fourth cist. It was not investigated having been concreted over in the meantime.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 145748, "created": "2020-08-12T02:12:17.303618", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84902, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-12T02:31:51.733674", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "NT 352 999", "Site": "Fife, Methilhill, Ashgrove Farm", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nKirkcaldy Museum\r\n\r\nHistory:\r\nPresented by Fife County Council after treatment and conservation work at the NMA, Edinburgh.", "Contents": "Metal:\r\n(1) Flat dagger with central rivet-notch and two rivet-holes. Three rivets still in position. Traces of sheath \r\n     of animal skin on blade and of horn hilt around rivets.\r\n(2) Two rivets from near the top of the hilt plate (3).\r\n\r\nOther:\r\n(3) Horn hilt, surviving as two horn plates, with rivet-holes.\r\n(4) Pommel carved out of a single piece of \"ivory\" - probably from a tooth of the sperm whale.\r\n(5) Beaker (Clarke's S4 Group).\r\n(6) Sherds of a Food Vessel.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 30.9.81", "ContextType": "2a Grave", "BiblioSources": "(a) Henshall (1963-64) 166-179\r\n(b) Henshall (1968) 184 No. 7, Fig. 41, 7a-j\r\n(c) Coles (1968-69) 90, 99\r\n(d) Clarke II (1970) 406 Fig. 1016, 517 No. 1662.1\r\n(e) Gerloff (1975) 43 No. 27", "Circumstances": "     Found in 1963 during construction work on a housing scheme at Ashgrove Farm. Three or four cists were discovered. The discovery of the first cist was reported to the Department of Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews and was excavated by Professor L.H. Butler and Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Adam. Cist one was found in the front garden of a home in Block 14. It contained a crouched inhumation covered by a thin layer of decayed plant material, which formed a deeper deposit over the chest. The dagger (1) with its horn hilt-plates (3) and \"ivory\" pommel (4) was partly embedded in the thick deposit. A Beaker (5) lay on its side against the E slab of the cist. Cist two lay under what is now the site of a house in Block 10, 170 ft. ESE of Cist 1. It was ransacked before it could be examined, but small pieces of bone and sherds of a Food Vessel (6) were found in the cist and on the ground nearby. Cist three was found in the front garden of a house in Block 10, 32 ft. NW of Cist 2. The soil within it was riddled by the workmen but nothing was found. A large slab found some days before Cist 1 was recognised was probably the capstone of a fourth cist . It was not investigated, having been concreted over in the meantime.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]