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Four Winds, Longniddry

Long Cist Cemetery (Early Medieval)

Site Name Four Winds, Longniddry

Classification Long Cist Cemetery (Early Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Eventyr

Canmore ID 54949

Site Number NT47NW 38

NGR NT 4424 7700

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Gladsmuir
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT47NW 38 442 770.

See also NT47NW 7.

The graves were discovered while digging a foundation trench for a house extension. Twenty eight inhumation burials were discovered, eighteen of which were completely excavated. All but one of the latter were contained within long cists which ranged from 1.3 to 2m in length. Although the cists had a general SW-NE orientation, with the heads at the SW end, they were not laid out in a systematic parallel manner.

Most of the burials seemed to be of adults. None of the burials were accompanied by grave goods.

M Dalland 1989b.

Excavations in 1989 discovered a long cist cemetery. It now lies beneath a house extension.

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.

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