Ardeer

A number of artifacts have been recovered from the Ardeer peninsula, including 54 flint arrowheads; 167 scrapers; 24 knives; a Late Bronze Age socketed gouge; part of a Bronze Age bead; a flat bead of dark blue glass; shale rings, armlets etc.; 2 Romano-British Brooches; a bronze pin and the head of a second; an early 10th-century, ‘Whitby’ type Anglo-Saxon bronze strap end; a probably 14th-century bronze ring brooch. In 1906, drifting of sand revealed a small oval cairn about 15 by 10 feet (4.6 by 3.0 m) in size and 3 feet (0.91 m) high in the centre, composed of about eighty water-rolled boulders. This covered at least sixteen cinerary urns, mainly bucket-shaped. The site was destroyed by building works at the Nobel site. A crannog site is located between Todhills Farm and the site of Bogend Farm. An area known as ‘Snap Green’, flooded at high spring tides, is shown near the tip of the peninsula in 1856. Extensive areas of saltings are shown to have existed at Misk in the 19th century.