Excavation

Date 8 June 1968

Event ID 567951

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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The cist was examined and photgraphed by E Marwick and E MacGillivray on the 8th June 1968. The photographs show the cover-stone in place in a freshly ploughed fields with the N mound of the group and the farmhouse of Hogarth visible in the background.

Orientated E-W. The cover-stone and sides were single flags. Externally the sides were 0.91m long c.0.5m wide and c.0.4m deep. Natural clay base, full of loose ploughsoil. A pile of cremated bones were found underneath the fill.

J W Hedges (North of Scotland Archaeology Society), Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1978-80