Summerhouse Hill, cist (1) with skeletons and beaker

On 11 May 1930 a cist burial was unearthed at the top of a south facing slope west of the Summerhouse on Summerhouse Hill. The cist and its contents, two (or parts of two) skeletons and a pottery vessel, were recovered by the curator of the Hancock Museum. The cist was apparently constructed of two end and four side stones, with a coverstone. The vessel was a short-necked beaker 260 mm high with rim diam of 140 mm, with decoration including comb- impressed cross-hatched lines. The cist was set up in the Hancock Museum and later moved to a site in the museum garden at the side of Claremont Road. The beaker and an incomplete skeleton were transferred from the Hancock to the Museum of Antiquities in 1973.