Whitefarland
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Glasgow Museums holds a collection of 26 archaeological artefacts, from Whitefarland, on the west coast of Arran, North Ayrshire. The finds date to the Late Bronze Age, around 950 to 750 BC. This collection contains two gold ornaments, 23 sherds of pottery representing two vessels and a pitchstone flake. There are also two modern replicas of the gold objects. The gold cup-ended ornament was discovered in 1921 by Mr Finlay Kerr, whilst procuring building stones. Ludovic McLellan Mann and some acquaintances, including some members of staff from Kelvingrove Museum, later visited the findspot. Mann's excavations there unearthed the gold hair ornament, the potsherds, and presumably also the pitchstone flake. No structures or burials were found. The gold objects relate to a discrete act of deposition, which was either ritual in nature or designed to hide the objects for safekeeping. The gold objects may have been originally contained within the vessels.
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