Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — A Stone Coffin. [ARTICLE]

A Stone Coffin.

In the end of last week there was unearthed in a field on Cockburn farm, near Duns, an ancient stone coffin. The interior of the grave, which was formed of four large slabs of the red sandstone which crops out on the banks of the Rover Whiteadder, measures about three feet in length by two feet in width, and was about two feet deep. It was covered by a similar stone, but there was no bottom slab. The dimensions, like those of other cists recorded in the district, show that the body which It contained had been doubled up before burial. The grave contained, In addition to some of the bones of the skeleton, a very fine urn of the “food vessel” type, such as Is commonly associated with Interments of the bronze age. The urn measured about 5H Inches in height by 6Mr Inches across, the upper part adorned with two raised bands with a dotted pattern, the under conical part having a zigzag ornament, and the whole by no means destitute of a certain rude artistic taste. It was preserved almost intact —London Globe.