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Site of a cist containing a jet necklace and of other prehistoric burials nearby. The cist, described by Jervise in 1862, was found in 1857 in a gravel hillock, about 2ft below the surface, in a wood on the Pitkennedy estate. The slab covering the top measured about 2 ft x 3 ft x 3 ins thick, the sides and ends being from 18 ins to 2 ft high. Within the cist was an urn and circa 104 jet beads, the remains of a necklace. No human remains were found and the urn was subsequently destroyed. The hillock in which the discovery was made is natural and situated on the northwest side and within the old boundary of Montreathmont Muir. Jervise also recorded the discovery of 'nearly 20 urns and other traces of ancient sepulture' during road construction in 1826, about 80 yards west of the knoll. Few of the burials 'were in coffins... they were from 14 to 18 ins below the surface, and all were found within a range of from 18 to 20 yds.. The jet necklace was purchased for the NMAS in 1930.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NO55SW0007 - PITKENNEDY