Test Pit Survey

Date 1 September 2016 - 17 September 2016

Event ID 1024701

Category Recording

Type Test Pit Survey

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1024701

NM 56746 99960 (Canmore ID: 181536) Twenty seven test pits were dug, 1–17 September 2016, around the Mesolithic site of Camas Daraich to reveal an extensive distribution of lithic material and associated geomorphological deposits and the possible presence of ochre. Identification of a 3mm long broad blade microlith, possibly on flint, suggests that the date range for this site is likely to be extended while

extensive use of lithic material from a newly identified raw material source at Ord a few miles to the N, together with a large assemblage of Rum bloodstone and Staffin baked mudstone, was recorded.

Funder: The British Academy

Karen Hardy – ICREA at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

(Source: DES, Volume 17)