During site clearance for a new medical centre in Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire, the operator of a mechanical excavator uncovered a slab-built structure within the subsoil. Removal of the capping stones revealed human remains inside a stone cist. The building contractors secured the site until AOC archaeologists recorded and excavated the cist and the surrounding area. Excavation revealed that the cist contained a crouched inhumation burial in a degraded condition. There were no artefacts recovered from the grave. The shallow remains of an elongated pit, a possible second burial, were identified next to the cist. Fragments of a decorated Beaker pot and a stone wrist guard were recovered from the pit.
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