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A cinerary urn found in 1986, eroding out of a bank after winter, and lay in a small pit with the base uppermost. As the side of the urn had eroded away, the burnt bones inside were removed first. The skull bones had been laid carefully in the urn as a first deposit (i.e. at the top of the bone heap now) and the other bone fragments reduced in size towards the mouth whereas the charcoal fragments increased. This would suggest that the large recognisable bones were picked out of the pyre first, then the rest swept up with ashes. The urn fragments were sent to the Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)