1-2(5 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ON FOUE SHOKT CISTS FEOM ABEEDEENSHIEE. 



By ALEXANDER Low, M.A., M.B., Senior Assistant to the Professor of 

 Anatomy and Lecturer on Embryology, University of Aberdeen. 



(Eead 17th February, 1906.) 



In a previous paper ' I described the contents of a series of short 

 cists preserved in the Anatomical Museum of the University. In the 

 present paper I describe four additional cists which have been re- 

 covered in Aberdeenshire since the date of my former paper. In the 

 case of three of the cists, I was fortunate in having the opportunity 

 of examining the cists and their contents soon after their discovery. 



I now give a detailed description of each cist and its contents. 



AUCHLIN SHORT CIST. 



On 14th November, 1904, while workmen were excavating gravel 

 from rising ground in the corner of a cultivated field on the farm of 

 Auchlin, Aberdour, they discovered a short cist. Through the intelli- 

 gent interest of Mr. George Fowlie, the tenant of the farm, the cist 

 and its contents were carefully preserved. I examined and photo- 

 graphed the cist with its contents soon after its discovery. 



The cist had been opened into by the removal of a flat, upright 

 stone which formed its north end the long axis of the cist running 

 north and south. The depth of soil covering the cist is about eighteen 

 inches. As examined from the interior, the sides of the cist are built of 

 flat stones set on edge, while the floor is formed by gravel. The inside 

 measurements of the cist are 3 feet 8 inches long, 18 inches wide, 

 Mini 10 inches deep. The south end of the cist is formed by a large 



1 Proc. of the Anatom. and Anthrop. Soc. of the Univ. of Aberdeen, 1902-1904. 



