Two
Early Bronze Age short
cists and several outlying undated features have been excavated at Holm Mains located to the south-west of Inverness. The larger cist contained a crouched male inhumation lying on his left side. Accompanying this burial were two barbed and tanged
arrowheads, ten other
lithics and the fragments of a finely decorated
beaker pot. The other cist also contained an adult male, in a much poorer state of preservation, accompanied by a beaker pot. The cists uncovered at Holm Mains are part of a group of sites centred on the Culduthel area near the site of the
Inverness Royal Academy, disparate pieces of a remarkably rich prehistoric landscape. ==References==