Nothing is known about Middle Neolithic funerary practices in the SESARF area. Elsewhere in Scotland, at Cairnpapple (West Lothian) and Forteviot (Perth and Kinross), small cemeteries featuring deposits of cremated human remains in pits, their positions marked by posts, have been dated to around 3300–3000/2900 cal BC (Brophy and Noble 2020, 113–33). It is possible that similar cemeteries were in use in South East Scotland as well but remain undiscovered.
Similarly, individual graves featuring, presumably, unburnt remains associated with distinctive kinds of Middle Neolithic flint artefact made in Yorkshire, the ‘Duggleby adze’ and ‘Seamer axe’, are known from Biggar Common, South Lanarkshire (Sheridan 1992) and Knappers, Dunbartonshire (Ritchie and Adamson 1981). Examples of these artefact types are known from the SESARF area such as at Castlesteads, Dalkeith, Midlothian (NMS X.AF 1047, Kenworthy in Ritchie and Adamson 1981, 191), so once again it could be that individual graves containing such objects are awaiting discovery in the SESARF area.
One find of cremated human remains, from a pit at Pencraig Wood, East Lothian, had initially been assumed to be of Middle Neolithic date as it was not far from a pit containing Impressed Ware (Lelong and MacGregor 2007, 92). However, a radiocarbon date for the bone revealed that it is of Chalcolithic date, around 2400–2200 cal BC, and contemporary with the use of Beaker pottery in the area.