Section 1: Background Chapter 1: Introduction Andy M Jones Section 2: Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist Chapter 2: Results from the 2011 fieldwork Andy M Jones Chapter 3: The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts Helen Williams Chapter 4: The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist Richard Brunning Chapter 5: The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill M.G. Canti Section 3: Assembling the burial Chapter 6: The human remains Simon Mays Chapter 7: The wood charcoal Zoe Hazell Chapter 8: The charred textiles from the cremation deposit Susanna Harris Chapter 9: The matted plant material from the base of the cist Julie Jones Chapter 10: The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samples Ralph Fyfe and Marta Perez Section 4: Items with the young adult Chapter 11: The animal pelt Esther Cameron and Quita Mould Chapter 12: The copper-alloy pin Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron and Henrietta Quinnell Chapter 13: The basketry container Caroline Cartwright, Maggie Cooper, Sherry Doyal, Dinah Eastop, Linda Lemieux and Ruth Stungo Chapter 14: The composite braided hair armband or bracelet Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron, Caroline Cartwright, Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Susanna Harris, Linda Hurcombe, Jamie Inglis, Quita Mould, Caroline Solazzo and Helen Williams Chapter 15: The composite necklace Alison Sheridan, with contributions by Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Jamie Inglis, Henrietta Quinnell, Hal Redvers-Jones, Roger Taylor, Kate Verkooijen, Helen Williams and Lore Troalen Chapter 16: The wooden studs Alison Sheridan, Richard Brunning, Vanessa Straker, Gill Campbell, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart King and Henrietta Quinnell Chapter 17: The flint Anna Lawson-Jones Chapter 18: The textile and animal-skin object Esther Cameron, Susanna Harris and Quita Mould Section 5: The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context Chapter 19: The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist Ralph M. Fyfe, Jeffrey J. Blackford, Mark Hardiman, Zoe Hazell, Alison MacLeod, Marta Perez and Sarah Littlewood Section 6: The radiocarbon dating Chapter 20: Interpreting the chronology of the cist Peter Marshall, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nicola Russell, Fiona Brock and Paula Reimer Section 7: Discussion, interpretation and conclusions Chapter 21: The results from the project Andy M Jones Appendices Appendix A: Chemical analysis of beads from the Whitehorse Hill cist Joanna Dunster Appendix B: Report on the scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of the basketry container and other organic artefacts from Whitehorse Hill cist Caroline Cartwright Appendix C: Report on the proteomic analysis of hairs from the basketry container, the braided band and the pelt from the Whitehorse Hill cist Caroline Solazzo