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skeleton in the bent position and a heap of fragments of incinerated human bones, 

 a flint scraper and arrow-head, a bone pin and perforated disc, but no urn. I had 

 the opportunity of examining the skull (p. 206). 



In the following year a small cemetery of three cinerary urns, exposed by a land 

 slip, was found on the bank of a stream at Chesters, near Jedburgh.* They were 

 inverted, and contained calcined bones, and in one was also a piece of flint. I repro- 

 duce a drawing, kindly made by Mr M. G. Craig, of one of the urns (fig. 9, p. 187) 

 which was decorated, but the other two, larger in size, had no ornamentation, except 

 that one was marked on the lip. In 1902 a short cist was exposed on a farm near 

 Denholm in the same county. It measured 40 inches by 25 inches, and contained a 

 much decayed skeleton, but no other relic. 



Ross-shire — Fyrish, Evanton. — In June 1865 a note on a short cist on the 

 farm of Fyrish was communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, f The cist con- 

 tained a beaker urn, a perforated greenish-coloured stone, and a skeleton. The skull 

 is described on p. 193. 



Strathpeffer. — Dr Fortescue Fox gave me an account of three short cists, found 

 in 1896 in a mound of sand and gravel at Croch Fionne. They were formed of slabs 

 of a clay slate, and each had a large cover stone. Two were about 3| feet long ; 

 the third was somewhat smaller. Each contained a human skeleton, but neither 

 urn nor implement was detected. In one the bones, judging from the dentition, 

 had belonged to a young person, but they and the other skeletons were fragmentary. 

 Near the centre of the mound a cinerary urn was exposed outside the cists. It 

 was in a black mass containing charcoal, and a similar substance filled the urn, but 

 bones were not seen either in the urn or around it. It was 6 inches high, 7\ inches 

 across the mouth, and b\ inches at the foot, and it was marked immediately below 

 the lip with oblique intersecting lines. 



Dr Fox also called my attention to a description by the Rev. W. Watson + 

 of two short cists, each of which contained a skeleton in the bent position, 

 at Aonach, Drummond, Kiltearn, in the same county. In one cist a bowl- 

 shaped urn full of a dark substance was found in front of the face, also a 

 piece of bronze the size of a darning needle. Dr Fox gave me the opportunity of 

 examining the human remains, unfortunately very imperfect. One skull was that 

 of a man advanced in life ; the glabella and supraciliaries were moderate, the bridge 

 of the nose was well formed and projecting, but the cranium was too imperfect to 

 admit of being measured. 



Rosemarkie, Ross-shire. — Early in this century a short cist was exposed in the 

 manse grounds. It was formed of rough whinstone slabs with a massive cover, and 

 its long diameter was north and south. It contained a skeleton, the head of which 

 was at the north. At the opposite end was an urn, 6 inches high, 6f inches in 



* Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. xxxi, p. 199. t Idem, vol. vi, p. 233, 1868 and p. 266. 



+ Idem, vol. xxiii, p. 138, 1889. 



