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Article on cist burial at Spingdale

Copy of an article with colour photograph, published in the 'The Archaeologist' of Spring 2014, concerning the discovery of a burial cist at Spinningdale in Sept 2011 during the construction of a septic tank at Keas Cottage, Spinningdale. The cist was subsequently excavated by GUARD Archaeology Ltd. The cist contained the remains of a crouched inhumation of a middle-aged adult female (30-50 years) with signs of spinal joint disease. Radio carbon dating from bone and charcoal fragments placed the cist in the early Bronze Age period. Sheepskin or wool discovered within the left arm of the body is the first example of this kind in Scotland with only two other examples known in the British Isles.

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