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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)
