Excavated at the turn of the 20th century, two skeletons were discovered in a stone-lined cist at Moredun (Coles 1904). The skeletons are those of a young adult person and of an adolescent about 21 years of age. The sex cannot be determined with certainty in either case, owing to the fragmentary condition of the bones, and the great superficial erosion of such as are entire. A La Tene Iron fibula and an iron ring-headed pin were recovered from the cist, confirming the early Iron Age date.
In 2013 at the House of the Binns in West Lothian, a stone slab cist burial was discovered containing two male skeletons dating to the 1st centuries BC to AD, with the remains of one individual (30–50 years old) clearly disturbed during the placement of the second (a young adult). The second individual was placed in a crouched position on his left side and was wearing a penannular brooch on his left shoulder. A significant element of the site is the survival of some extremely rare Iron Age textile upon the brooch, which represented a coarse woollen garment, likely a cloak. The positioning of the brooch and textile suggests intentional burial attire, possibly reflecting social identity. The presence of two individuals in one cist, with one displaced, indicates reuse and complex burial rites. This site adds to the understanding of Iron Age funerary practices, including the symbolic use of dress and the potential familial or social relationships between individuals (Rhodes and Jones 2017).
Two slab-lined cists were discovered at Winton House, Cockenzie. Burial 2 contained the skeleton of a female aged 17–24. Burial 6 contained the disturbed remains of two skeletons, an adult and a juvenile. The adult was a female aged 17–25 and the child was 2–3 years old. Only burial 6 contained sufficient material for a radiocarbon determination suggesting that the burial dates to between AD 10 to AD 340 (Dalland 1991).
One grave (3) from Broxmouth was a grave lined with substantial slabs. It contained the skeleton of a young woman around 16 to 18 years old, whose body may have been bound, perhaps in a shroud or binding cloth (Armit and MacKenzie 2014). Radiocarbon dating suggests a date of burial between 365–165 BC.