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Suddaby, I. (2009).
Two prehistoric short-cists and an early medieval long-cist cemetery with dug graves on Kingston Common, North Berwick, East Lothian
. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. https://doi.org/10.5284/1017938.
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Two prehistoric short-cists and an early medieval long-cist cemetery with dug graves on Kingston Common, North Berwick, East Lothian
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Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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34
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28
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Human remains were discovered during the laying of a water pipe to service the refurbished Fenton Tower at Kingston, near North Berwick, in 2001. Two short-cist burials, thirty-eight long-cist burials and bank-defined terraces containing dug graves and a possible chapel (NT58SW 152) were found. It is suggested that three main periods of burial are represented, spanning the Neolithic to the early second millennium AD.
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Ian Suddaby
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Helen Bleck
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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2009
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0 903903 65 3
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978 09039 0365 3
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1 Abstract
1
2 Introduction
2 - 4
This chapter presents background to the work and details of the site location.
3 The excavation
Adam Jackson
Graeme Warren
Ann MacSween
John A Lawson
Paul R J Duffy
5 - 16
This chapter presents aims and methods, describes the setting and gives a brief history of the site. Archaeological description of the remains is followed by specialist reports on chipped stone, coarse stone, prehistoric, medieval and later pottery and human skeletal remains. Two radiocarbon dates were obtained.
Coarse stone
Adam Jackson
12 - 13
Chipped stone
Graeme Warren
14
Medieval and later pottery
John A Lawson
14 - 15
Prehistoric pottery
Ann MacSween
14
Skeletal remains
Paul R J Duffy
15 - 16
4 Interpretation
17 - 18
The evaluation has provide evidence for activity which, on artefactual grounds alone, spans six millennia, from the Neolithic to the 20th century. This long-term chronology can be refined to indicate two distinct phases of human burial on the knoll, firstly the short-cists and secondly the early medieval cemetery. Within the latter phase, three sub-phases were recognised, sandstone cists without lintels, volcanic stone cists with lintels and dug burials. There was no evidence of a hiatus within the sub-phases.
5 Conclusion
19
The fieldwork has re-inforced existing assumptions regarding the location, layout and dating of these cemeteries and that they often occupy burial sites of much greater antiquity.
6 Acknowledgements
20
7 Archive
21
8 References
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Two prehistoric short-cists and an early medieval long-cist cemetery with dug graves on Kingston Common, North Berwick, East Lothian
Ian Suddaby
Human remains were discovered during the laying of a water pipe to service the refurbished Fenton Tower at Kingston, near North Berwick, in 2001. Two short-cist burials, thirty-eight long-cist burials and bank-defined terraces containing dug graves and a possible chapel (NT58SW 152) were found. It is suggested that three main periods of burial are represented, spanning the Neolithic to the early second millennium AD.