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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 763958
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/763958
NO50SE 177 5565 0271
NO 5565 0271 Skeleton exposed by coastal erosion at W end of Anstruther Golf Course and reported by the police who removed arm bones. Rescue investigation by P Yeoman and S Govan revealed the upper half of an adult skeleton under 1.3m of stony clay soil. Low cliff, no trace of a grave or cist although some possible cist stones were recorded at 0.8m above. No skull, either washed away or stolen. There were traces of a buried wall 14m to the E of the burial, also being eroded by the sea.
Sponsor: Fife Regional Council Archaeological Service.
P Yeoman 1996
