The southeastern most of the Hnaberd quadrant burial clusters, Hn BC 01 was recorded 2.05km southeast (bearing 151°) of Hnaberd fortress (map quad B3a).
The burials in this cluster are concentrated on the summit and western slope of a low hill that overlooks a valley with a swift-flowing watercourse at the bottom. Some evidence of disturbance in the area (see feature 1).
Only 25-30 burials were clearly visible in this cluster, occupying an area only 40m x 35m. The burials were remarkable only in their normality. Each could have served as a textbook example of the standard cromlech burial form. Ranging in diameter from 3 to 6m and built of medium-sized, shaped, and unworked basalt blocks, the outer rings of the tombs encircle two or three elongated basalt capstones.
No surface materials.
Feature 1 is an exposed burial chamber, lined with basalt slabs on all sides. The surrounding architecture of the burial is either submerged or destroyed making it difficult to assess the period of the looted tomb. The chamber is 1.35m wide and 2.40m long. It has been exposed to a depth of 0.77m below the present ground surface. The chamber was oriented roughly east-west with single slabs for the west, north, and south sides and two smaller, less-worked basalt blocks on the eastern end (the latter two appear to now be out of place). No materials were found in or around the tomb, suggesting it was either empty or robbed with all the materials intact.
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