Parkburn Stone Chest
The short stone box from Parkburn ( English Parkburn cist ), which was the only one of the 111 boxes to contain a small decorated, intact vessel, was discovered in 1965 during the complete excavation of the long box burial ground of Parkburn on England's Hill north of Bonnyrigg in the Council Area Midlothian in Scotland found south of the A720 trunk road .
The north-south oriented small stone box , without a floor or ceiling slab and with a polygonal floor plan, was built from four sandstone slabs of different lengths , measured around 0.8 × 0.45 m and was over 0.45 m deep. The eastern side plate had been reused because it had a heavily weathered half ring . The sand-filled box did not contain any remains of the actual burial.
See also
literature
- Audrey S. Henshall: Second Report of cist burials at Parkburn Sand-Pit, Lasswade, Midlothian. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 98, 1964/1966, ISSN 0081-1564 , pp. 204-214, panels XXVI-XXVII ( digital version (PDF; 1 MB) ).
Web links
- Entry on Parkburn Stone Chest in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 53 ′ 40.8 " N , 3 ° 7 ′ 18.4" W.