Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689860

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO55SW 20 505 535.

Ploughing in February 1982 on the southern half of the cairn discovered in 1981 (Sherriff 1981), disturbed the capstone of a short cist which was subsequently excavated. The cremated remains of a young adult human were found in a matrix of bright red soil which filled the cist to a height of 0.2m. On the bottom of cist there lay a flint knife and several sherds of indeterminate pottery were found on the northern edge of the top of the grave.

J R Sherriff 1981; J R Sherriff 1982.