Site Report

WoSASPIN 17793
NS96NW 3 934 651.

An earthenware vessel, containing 244 coins, which had been deposited c.1500, was ploughed up on 17 October 1921 on Cowhill farm, in the field No 1135 on OS plan (1916 ed.- centred NS 934 651). The coins, of gold, silver and billon, were of Robert II and III, James I - IV Edward III, Henry V and VI. Twenty-five of them are in the NMAS, 91 in the British Museum, and several in the Royal Scottish Museum.
G Macdonald 1922; B Stewart and J Murray 1967

No further information.
Visited by OS (JLD) 19 February 1953

NS 93470 65190 (centred)
The field referred to is identifiable on the 3rd Edition O.S. map of the area, and the centre of the field is at approximately the NGR given above. No further information is available for a more precise location of the find-spot within the field, which is a trapezoid measuring approximately 305m ENE-WSW by between 155m (W end) and 200m (E end) NNW-SSE. Th field lies immediately S of the Cowhill farm steading which on topographical grounds would appear to occupy a site on or near that of the earlier Cowhill mapped by General Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747-55).
Entered WoSAS (HMcB) 07/04/2010