Three cists were dug up on the 19, 20 and 21 April 1886 containing bones and three urns measuring 7-1/2ins, 6-3/8ins and 2-1/2ins across the top respectively. The field in which they were found is called East Cairnfold field on Lilburn Hill farm, (a) lying midway between Lilburn Hill and Trickley. 'The graves were found when ploughing; the first had a three-cornered compartment in which was an urn 15ins high and 7ins across containing bones and ashes (it crumbled to pieces when handled and also the small cup-shaped urn (referred to above as 2-1/2ins across - illus, shows it to be an incense cup), the second to the north-east contained a food vessel and third contained bones and had a sandstone slab over it (b). (A description of the 15ins urn is given, from which it can be identified as a cinerary urn with overhanging rim). The urns were given to the Society of Antiquaries Newcastle upon Tyne. (1) (8a-b)

In the Black Gate Museum, Newcastle Acc. No. 1889-86. (2)

The food-vessel from the 'second grave' is shown by Abercromby as a Type BC Beaker, and the NCH describes it as coming from 'a cist with an unburnt burial'. Cinerary urn, 15in by 7in -Type 1 (a). (3)(4)(5)

Area NU 021263. The East Cairnfold Field was indicated to the Investigator by Mr Dixon of Lilburn Hill farm, who has no knowledge of the finds. South sloping cornfield. No evidence of antiquity. (6)

A Bell Derivative beaker from a cist with an unburned burial at Lilburn Hill. (7)