More information : [SX 64257769] Cist [NR] (1)
A cist without a cover exists on "that part of Lake Head Hill which is included in Sheet 99 SW". No retaining circle is visible but there are slight remains of a possible barrow. In the cist a number of flint knives and scrapers and thirty sherds (representing two vessels which were probably broken during apparent grave robbing) were found.
(The cist is on the same alignment as a fragment of stone row at
SX 67 NW 64). (2-4)
On the NW slope of Lakehead Hill at 417m OD is the remains of
a cist in a forestry clearing. Aligned NW/SE, and in good condition,
it measures 0.95m long by 0.55m wide and 0.4m above ground level.
There is no surrounding cairn but excavation spoil from the cist
lies to the N. The cist is now as amended on Worth's plan. See
also ground photograph.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and 1:2500 on AO 25". (5)
[SX 64267769] Cist [NR] (6)
Additional bibliography. (7)
SX 64267769 (9). Round barrows on Lake Head Hill, scheduled.
(8-9)
SX 64267769. A cist sited on the north-west, upper slopes of Lakehead Hill within its own clearing at the edge of conifer plantation. It is constructed from four granite slabs of approximately 0.2m thick, set on their sides to form a rectangular chamber measuring internally 0.8m by 0.5m by 0.35m deep. The largest of the slabs is 1.35m long. The coverstone is now missing and all that remains of the associated cairn is a small stoney mound on the north side of the cist.
Site depicted and described by Butler in 1991. (10-11)
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