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Excavation

Date 1984

Event ID 1005900

Category Recording

Type Excavation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1005900

The chambered cairn at Point of Cott was believed to be stalled cairn of 7 or more compartments. Excavation of the cairn, its chambers, and areas outwith the cairn, revealed that in face the site consists of 2 distinct elements.

At the south end a relatively standard stalled cairn of 4 compartments was discovered. Burial deposits (human bone, animal bone and pottery) were discovered on the floors of the first 3 stalls, and an unusual double cist-like arrangement occupied the floor of the fourth and northern-most-compartment.

These deposits were sealed by collapsed chamber and cairn material inter-mixed with which were human and animal bone, amongst the latter there being the talon of large birds of prey.

At the N end of the site a separate and apparently earlier structure was located. The exact nature of this structure has not yet been fully resolved, particularly since it was largely destroyed in the process of its incorporation into the cairn of the chambered tombs.

J Barber 1984.

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