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Site of a short cist. It was discovered by workmen digging foundations for an electricity standard to the west of the steading on 3rd June 1955. The workmen broke a stone slab to reveal the cist, 0.94 m below ground level. The cist lay mostly underneath a shed of wood with brick foundation apart from the southwest end of the cist. Complete excavation would have undermined the wall, but it was possible to identify the main features of the cist which had a floor of natural sand and gravel and internal dimensions of 0.84 m x 0.51 m x 0.43 m. The burial was crouched with head to the west and an intact food vessel lying on its side at the west end. The human bones were examined by Dr J. D. B. Macdougall, Dundee, who identified the body as that of a child, probably female, and probably aged between 10-12 years old on the basis of the teeth, with a height of circa 1.37 m. The Food Vessel was donated to the NMAS. It is virtually complete, bipartite and with a stand foot and irregular whipped cord and impressed decoration. Its dimensions are 119 mm high x 160 mm rim diameter x 66 mm base diameter. There is a sooty smudge on the interior and two small indentations below the rim some 14 mm apart, apparently made after firing.
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