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Excavation
Date 2 May 2017 - 4 May 2017
Event ID 1040346
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1040346
NJ 0838 5602 (NJ05NE 10) As part of the Northern Picts project surveys and excavations have been undertaken on a number of enclosed settlements in Moray and Aberdeenshire to help construct regional datasets on the dating of fortified settlement.
In Moray an evaluation, 2–4 May 2017, targeted a bivallate enclosure. The monument consists of a sub-circular stonewalled enclosure located on a W-facing slope and the outer enclosure measures c46m E/W and c43m N/S. Both enclosures are low stone walls. No previous work had been carried out at the site.
A total of 11 test trenches were dug. Many revealed only subsoil below the root mat. Trench 3 revealed the character of the inner enclosure wall which was of rubble construction. Thin occupation charcoal lenses were found in a small number of the interior trenches. Trench 6 near a possible entrance through the inner enclosure identified a possible posthole on the interior side. Trench 8 in the interior revealed a charcoal lens that overlay a shallow pit of posthole.
Radiocarbon dating of select charcoal from interior features is under way.
Archive: University of Aberdeen
Funder: University of Aberdeen
Gordon Noble and Oskar Sveinbjarnarson – University of Aberdeen
(Source: DES, Volume 18)
