Watching Brief

Date 16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

Event ID 1038971

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1038971

NM 28471 24057 A watching brief was undertaken, 16–17 March 2017, on topsoil stripping in advance of the installation of three septic tanks. A midden-rich topsoil with many fragments of animal bone, winkles and limpet shells capped the site. Beneath the topsoil a portion of a large, probable late medieval pit (15th to 17th century) was recorded. The pit was filled with grey silt and much animal bone as well as a number of sherds of organic tempered pottery and a large sherd of redware. The pit cut through

natural sand and two probable early prehistoric buried soils that contained a small number of lithics, two coarse stone tools and a single sherd of organic tempered pottery. It is thought likely that the artefacts were incorporated into the buried soil within midden.

Funder: The Gully Partnership LLP

Clare Ellis – Argyll Archaeology

(Source: DES, Volume 18)