One grave was found intact: a cist graveof the incipient Iron Age. Stone walls, covered by large stone slabs were placed in a pit oriented northsouth. On the soudi wall pictured above,the large verticalstoneservedas a kind of door. (Below,Left) A view of the cist grave after the removalof the door slab. The skeletonwas put in a flexedposition upon four large square mud brick "pillows" pictured aboveafter the removalof the skeleton. TEPE GURAN continued later layers yielded graves, but there are four stone cist graves which deserve mention even though their stratigraphical position is uncertain. They are in pits cut through the burnt house and seem to underlie the latest layers of the period 750-600 B.c. They must be older than this period although it is difficult to decide how much older. Quite possibly they belong to a settlement elsewhere at Tepe Guran. One grave was intact. It contained only one skeleton accompanied by a bronze dagger and an iron arm ring. Nearly every finger wore an iron finger ring and at the feet were two bronze vessels, one with a long beaked spout. This spouted jug, related to similarly shaped jugs of Sialk Level B should probably be dated to 800-750 B.c. The grave belongs to an incipient Iron Age where iron was scarce and was only used as material for ornaments, while bronze was used for larger objects