In 1939, the farmer at Coatshill Farm, Blantyre ploughing the then empty fields found something of interest which proved as old as Christ himself! The 2000 year old discovery was found in what is now the garden of 11 Bellairs Place, Coatshill. A very detailed description of a Stone Cist (or coffin) and Bronze age […]
A very detailed description of an Urn found near the lower reaches of the Coatshill Farm Blantyre, was left to us which is presented here: Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society Vol. IX Part I 1937 Bronze Age Burials at Blantyre and Milngavie by J.M. Davidson, O.B.E., F.SA. Scot. “Read to the society on Saturday, 16th […]
Evidence of habitation in Blantyre can be traced back as far as 2000 BC. As well as Campknow, the hillside fort, urns and grave goods have been found not only in Archers Croft, High Blantyre, but also in Coatshill area, as recently as 1939. In April that year a farmer at Coatshill Farm (near where […]
Campknowe or Campknow, is a circular mound of earthworks located at Calderside, Auchentibber. The mound is purported to be a Bronze age hill fort dating back to between 2000-700BC and this suggestion has appeared in many accounts over the last few centuries. The site is important for Blantyre as it represents perhaps the oldest known […]