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Site of six cists, at least one of them short, found at Fallows in 1868 during the construction of the railway line. According to Jervise, all were of red sandstone flags. The first cist to be found measured 1 m x 0.68 m x 0.45 m deep and lay in the south side of a hillock. It contained a skeleton, complete apart from a forearm bone, lying east-west. It also contained a beaker, three flint implements, two flint flakes and was paved with a grey sandstone saddle quern. The grave-goods and quern from the first cist are in the NMAS, the majority being donated in 1873 and the quern in 1871 following a visit to the site by Jervise and Mr Neish. The quern is 670 mm x 440 mm x 100 mm thick and has a shallow grinding surface with a wide flat rim on two sides. The Beaker is of Clarke's Northern British/Dutch group (Lanting and De Waals' step 4) has most of the rim missing and is decorated with tooth-comb impressions, incisions (including staggered horizontal) and impressed lines A second cist containing a skeleton lay about 32 m from the first. Its capstone measured 1.4 m x 1.27 m but no dimensions are given by Jervise for the cist itself. The other four cists lay between these two. Two were paved and contained unburnt burials, but the other two were unpaved and contained ashes. The OS discovered two hillocks in the vicinity of Fallaws when they visited in 1966. One, at NO 5125 4096, has been quarried in the south side, and is almost certainly the one in which the first cist was found. The other, at NO 5114 4099, is a natural rise in a ploughed field with a considerable scatter of stones on top.
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