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Excavation
Date August 1983
Event ID 1114125
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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A forestry road had passed through a settlement of Dalrulzion-type and single walled houses, destroying half of a small, roughly circular house [G - NO 1955 5504]. The remaining half was investigated in August. The house was c.7.0m in diameter crest to crest and survived as a low rubble bank c2.5m wide and c.0.3m high. Several small rounded boulders may represent a foundation core and a short line of large flat stones may be the remains of the inner wall-facing which has collapsed inwards. A short length of shallow ditch c0.7m wide and c0.2m deep and filled with upright flat stones may be the remains of a foundation trench for the wall. One stone-packed posthole c0.2m in diameter and c0.2m deep was found within the house.
About 1.0m to the SE of this lay a shallow pit c0.5m long, c0.4m wide and c0.15m deep. To the N of the house a large number of sherds of coarse pottery were found. They are probably all from one vessel.
J Rideout 1983
The surviving half of a small round-house, damaged by a forestry road, at Craighead, Alyth, was investigated. Pottery from the site indicated a later Bronze Age or Iron Age date.
J S Rideout 1995
