Overview
Lintmill House is recorded as Cist (bronze Age), Inhumation (bronze Age), Food Vessel Urn (bronze Age) in Scotland Scottish Borders. The record fixes the place and type while keeping unknown makers, use, finds and survival open. Its saved wording adds: Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lintmill House as Cist (bronze Age), Inhumation (bronze Age), Food Vessel Urn (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Who made it and when
The saved record identifies Lintmill House as Cist (bronze Age), Inhumation (bronze Age), Food Vessel Urn (bronze Age). It does not safely name its makers or a precise construction date.
How it was made and used
Its classification points to burial or commemoration. The saved wording does not establish the full building method, ceremonies or length of use, so those details remain open.
What was found
No safe list of excavated objects, bones, carvings or dates is supplied by the short saved record. Finds are not invented from the place type or local name.
What remains
The public record still maps Lintmill House as Cist (bronze Age), Inhumation (bronze Age), Food Vessel Urn (bronze Age). The point may mark standing remains, earthworks, a buried site or the centre of a wider area, and this first account keeps that difference visible.
Why it mattered
The place preserves physical evidence or local memory connected with cist (bronze age), inhumation (bronze age), food vessel urn (bronze age). Its source and exact position give later research a firm starting point without turning uncertain tradition into fact.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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