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Two oak coffins found in this area of peat moss in 1813 when peat diggers removed a tumulus. A contemporary description with a watercolour of one of the coffins says, 'In digging peat moss on the estate of Cairngall Longside parish in August 1813 men found in a tumulus, two oak coffins, one of them entire, the other not so. Hollowed out of the solid tree measuring seven feet by two feet. No vestige of bones was found in them, but a small quantity of soft earthy matter. Their tops were flat boards; and their exteriors exhibited the bark of the tree in a very perfect state. They were placed close together and lay east and west.' Both coffins had been hollowed out of solid trees, had parallel sides, rounded ends and two projecting knobs for carrying. Part of one (circa 5 inches long) was in Arbuthnott Museum, Peterhead in 1888. On English analogies they have Food Vessel associations.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)