Greenoakhill
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Glasgow Museums holds a collection of human remains, 10 artefacts, 16 cist slabs, four pebbles from graves and burnt material from Greenoakhill, Mount Vernon, Glasgow, that date to about 2,200–1,700 BC in the Early Bronze Age. This Early Bronze Age burial site was first discovered during commercial sand extraction in 1928, and this collection represents a pottery Food Vessel from those initial finds, along with the assemblage from the subsequent excavation by Ludovic McLellan Mann. The assemblage comprises human skeletal remains from several individuals, six Food Vessels, a flint arrowhead, two flint knives, woven 'moss-cloth' fragments, 16 sandstone slabs from the burial cists (stone-lined graves), pebbles from inside some of the graves, and burnt material. Three food vessels were initially found by workers at the quarry, and of these, one remains, from Grave 1, which was said to have been a cist burial. Grave 2 comprised the cist burial of a mature adult male, probably in his 30s or 40s, and a flint arrowhead accompanied him in the grave. Graves 3 and 4 comprised human skeletal remains, each buried in their own cist along with food vessels. Grave 5 comprised human skeletal remains buried in what appeared to be a wooden coffin. Grave 6 comprised the burial of a young adult, probably female, who was 16–18 years old. She was accompanied by a Food Vessel (which had the charred remains of a burnt deposit containing oats and rye inside it), a flint knife, and a white pebble. Grave 7 comprised the cist burial of a child 7–11 years old. This burial was accompanied by a Food Vessel, and the human remains were covered with what appeared to be a type of woven 'hair-moss' or 'moss-cloth' cover. This cist may have had a wooden cover. Burial 8 comprised cremated human remains, a flint knife, and possibly also a food vessel. A further burial was reputedly found at the site in 1953, but the whereabouts of the human remains, and any accompanying finds, is not known.
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