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Excavation
Date 2018
Event ID 1104379
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104379
NO 5140 5350 Sample excavation of a complex of enclosures on Turin Hill (Canmore ID: 34899) was undertaken in the summer of 2018. The site comprises two hillforts and three smaller ringforts. Geophysical and topographical survey at the site in 2017 revealed a large number of possible hut structures of unknown date lying within the largest fort. The main aim of targeted excavations was to date each fort in order to clarify their chronology.
Three trenches were opened over the smaller forts, with an additional trench placed within a depression inside the middle fort. A fifth trench was positioned over the large bivallate hillfort. The excavations were successful in obtaining dating samples from each fort in the form of pre-bank layers and occupations surfaces abutting the walls. The dating confirmed the relative sequence of the sites, with the larger bi-vallate hillfort producing an Early Iron Age date from a pre-bank surface and the three ringforts producing dates ranging from c.400–100 cal BC.
Archive: University of Aberdeen
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
James O’Driscoll and Gordon Noble – University of Aberdeen
(Source: DES Vol 20)
OASIS Id: jamesodr1-407601
