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Excavation
Date September 1960
Event ID 1124776
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1124776
NO/151643. (See D. & E., 1959, p. 27.) A second hut circle on this site was excavated with the aid of a grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The hut is situated on the top of a natural knoll, measured approx. 50 ft. in diameter, and had been surrounded by a wall of loosely-set boulders. The wall was built on the original A/B profile of the mound, and this material had also been used as packing for the larger stones. There had been an extensive tumble of stones on the outward slope of the knoll.
The inside of the hut was characterised by numerous rock outcrops. From 3-10 ins. below turf level, the phosphate content was significantly high, and this presumably indicated the occupation floor and debris from it. Unfortunately, part of the structure, which included the doorway, had been destroyed by quarrying, and finds were limited to a few fragments of coarse, badly-fired pottery, similar in character to that found in the first hut circle.
A plane table survey of the immediate vicinity of the huts showed the existence of three, possibly four, low angled mounds, averaging from 12 ft. to 16 ft. in each length, and from 6 ft. to 8 ft. in width. A trial section through one of these exposed a low, stony foundation, from which came two stone discs—a stone grain rubber and a rim sherd of thin, hard, dark pottery, possibly dating to the first centuries B.C.
Soil and pollen analyses have been carried out by the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research, and a full report on the excavation of both hut circles, and of the angled mound, will be published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
