54 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ON TWO ADDITIONAL SHOET CISTS FEOM ABEEDEENSHIKE. 

 By Professor E. W. EEID, M.D., F.E.C.S., and ALEX. Low, M.A., M.B., C.M. 



(Presented Cth July, 1907.) 



In previous communications 1 the contents of a series of short 

 cists preserved in the Anatomical Museum of the University have 

 been described. Recently the contents of two additional cists, and in 

 one case the cist itself, have been added to the Museum, and we now 

 describe these. 



LESLIE SHORT CIST. 



This cist was recovered in a cultivated field on the farm of Mains 

 of Leslie, parish of Premnay, on the 13th November, 1906. The 

 covering stone of the cist was struck by the plough, and the cist was 

 opened by Mr. Peter Thomson, the tenant of the farm, and Mr. John 

 Morrison, Bridge of Leslie. Later the cist was examined by Mr. J. 

 Graham Callander, F.S.A. Scot., Insch, who furnished the following 

 note regarding it : 



" The cist was found to be full of soil which had found its way 

 into the chamber at the junction of two of the corner stones. On 

 being emptied of this soil the remains of a skeleton were discovered 

 lying on its right side in a crouching position, the head being near the 

 south-west corner of the cist ; behind the skull was a ' drinking 

 cup ' urn in fragments. The cist was composed of four thin slabs 

 of local Coreen stone ; it was carefully made, being nearly rectangular 



1 See the Proceedings of the Society for 1902-04 and 1904-06. 



2 Mr. Graham Callander publishes a detailed account of the finding of the cist in 

 the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. xli., p. 116. 



