NT67NW 10 c. 638 788. A short cist, containing only the remains of a human skeleton, has been revealed by wind-erosion on the south bank of the estuary of the Tyne, south of Hedderwick Sands and west of Hedderwick Burn. Other finds in the area (about 250 yds by 30 yds) include 'several hundred Ne and BA sherds' and hundreds of flints and stone objects, including microliths, leaf and barbed and tanged arrowheads, axes, knives, macehead, whorls and whetstones, and mediaeval sherds and lead bullets. Specimens have been presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (BM 2 - 91, 517 - 580). J G Callander 1929; R B K Stevenson 1948; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1949; L Scott 1951; NMAS Continuation Catalogue. (NT 6370 7865) 'Area from which Ne B sherds came - old land surface.' Information from 6" (NMAS, November 1951). The area of the finds (Mr Dewar, tenant, West Links), centred on NT 6375 7872, is covered with sand and scrub. No further information. Visited by OS (WDJ) 12 November 1962. A short cist containing a human skeleton was found here. Hundreds of pottery sherds, flints and stone axes were also found in the area . The site of these finds is on a plateau 6m above the shore, the plateau is covered in shrub and bracken, the sand cliffs are steep and eroding badly, but no finds were recovered. Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 16th February 1996.