NJ81SE 13 c. 891 147. In 1867 a cist was opened while making a railway cutting at Parkhill. It contained a type Ca Beaker and human bones. The beaker and skull are in the anthropological Museum of the Marischal College, Aberdeen In 1881, and described as coming from the same spot, a short cist was found in a mound of sand and gravel within a hundred yards (north-east) of Parkhill Station by workmen digging for gravel. The cist contained a type Ca beaker, fragments of human and animal bone and some vegetable charcoal. This latter beaker is in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Accession no. EG2). W Ferguson 1882; A Low 1905; J Abercromby 1912; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1934. These two cists were found in 1867 and 1881 respectively, the first during the excavation of a railway cutting, the second in a sand-pit about 100m to the NE. A Beaker (NMS: EG 2) from the latter is in the Royal Museum of Scotland; the artefacts that were recovered from the former are held in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen: ABDUA: 14227. Human bones. ABDUA: 14235. Human bones. ABDUA: 14822. Fibrous vegetable matter. ABDUA: 14823. Four stone pebbles. ABDUA: 14824. Pig bones. ABDUA: 14825. Deer bones. ABDUA: 19702. Beaker. The site of the sand-pit is now occupied by a modern house and its garden. Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 10 September 2002.