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Site of a short cist. Discovered during ploughing in December 1970 and subsequently excavated by staff of Dundee Museum. The cist, oriented northeast-southwest, had been built of thirteen sandstone slabs, the usual four main slabs being very thin and only formed a tight join at one place. The remaining nine slabs were used to fill the gaps and as pinning material. The capstone, an irregular slab of yellowish sandstone, lay only 0.1m below the surface. The cist measured 1 m long x 0.58 m wide at the base x 0.53 cm wide at the top end x 0.55 m deep internally. Its floor, and the excavation pit dug to take the cist, were packed with gravel pebbles to a depth of 22 cm, the gravel having been inserted after the slabs had been placed. The thin side slabs were protected from the weight of the capstone by a paving of slabs which overlapped the edge of the pit dug for the cist. It contained an inhumation lying facing east, accompanied by a beaker and a small flint scraper. At the east corner of the excavation pit, outside of the cist, there was a second, smaller and later pit, filled with pebbles of purpose unknown. The beaker is of All-Over-Cord type, 13.4cm high which unusually combines bands of cord decoration with bands of impressions and incisions. It was found intact, upright and empty to the east of the inhumation. The flint scraper was of yellowish flint, 2.2 cm long, one side retaining most of the natural face. It was found to the east of the skull. The human remains were friable and insufficient survived to determine the sex, the age of the individual was over 25, probably in the range 30-40. The finds are in Dundee Museum.
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NO64NW0022 - HATTON MILL FARM