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ascertained that four stone coffins of this type were exposed, but the skulls were not 

 preserved. In 1868 Mr Lawson Tait excavated at Kintradwell, Sutherland,* a 

 similar cist 5 feet 3 inches long : the skull was at the west end and the skeleton was 

 extended. The skull was removed and sent to me for examination ; its dimensions 

 are given in Table VIII: the cephalic index was dolichocephalic. No grave goods 

 were found in the cist. Three short cists were found in proximity to the long one. 

 The late Mr Wm. Galloway informed me that in 1896 he had seen, some miles 

 south of Inveraray, a group of long stone coffins which had been opened and partially 

 destroyed. 



In the course of the excavation of the Roman Camp at Inchtuthill, Perthshire, f 

 the Hon. John Abercromby exposed in a mound of clayey loam a cist 7 feet 6 inches 

 long which contained an extended skeleton. He also described j three long cists with 

 skeletons on the south side of the Gladhouse reservoir. Their floors were not paved. 

 Subsequently a group of twenty-four graves was described by him and Mr MacTier 

 Pirrie at Nunraw, East Lothian § : they had the characteristic construction of long 

 cists, and contained skeletons. In 1906 Mr J. W. Loney recorded, on a small island 

 in the North Esk reservoir, a group of six graves from 5 to 6 feet long arranged 

 in rows. They contained human remains, but no grave goods. The graves were 

 approximately oriented. 



In 1901 the Rev. J. Primrose noted the find of over twenty long stone graves at 

 Uphall, West Lothian. || They were oriented, arranged in at least two rows, con- 

 structed of flagstone of the customary size and form, but not paved on the floor. 



In 1905 Mr Alexander Hutcheson described 5| two full-length stone coffins 

 found on Auchterhouse Hill, Dundee, one of which contained a human skeleton. 

 In the same year Dr Richardson recorded** eight long coffins lying east and west in 

 Stenton parish, East Lothian, one of which contained a skeleton but no other relics. 

 In 1909 Mr Wm. Reid noted at Leuchars, Fife, ft a cemetery of thirty-four long cists, 

 with two skeletons in each cist ; no other relics. At Broughty Ferry j'J Mr Hutcheson 

 found two long cists, one of which had only a single slab on each side, which he 

 regarded as the only specimen up to that time recorded in a long cist. 



The examples now specified show that about 260 interments in this form of 

 stone-built cist have been recorded in Scotland. In the Lothians, Roxburgh, Selkirk, 

 Fife, Forfarshire, Argyll, Perth and Sutherland one or more graves have been 

 exposed in the same locality. Elsewhere in the Lothians and in Fife the graves 

 were at times so numerous as to give the spot the aspect of a cemetery. Thus at 

 Kirkliston 51 were counted, at Leuchars 34, at Old Haacks, Fife, 30, at Cramond 

 and Nunraw each 24, at Uphall 20, Dunbar 12, Yarrow 9, Stenton 8, Arniston 7, North 



* Proc. Hoc. Antiq. Scot., vol. vii, p. 515, 1870. t Idem, vol. xxxvi, 1902. 



I Idem, vol. xxxviii, p. 96, 1904. § Idem, vol. xl, p. 60, and p. 328, 1906. 



|| Idem, vol. xxxv, 1901 IT Idem, vol. xxxix, p. 393, 1905. 



** Idem, p. 441. tt Idem, vol. xliii, p. 170, 1909. 

 %X Idem, p. 317, 1909. 



