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Trial Trench
Date 2005
Event ID 547155
Category Recording
Type Trial Trench
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/547155
NB 4713 6215 dunasbroc. Evaluation trenches were excavated on this previously surveyed site (NB46SE 19; DES 2004, 133): a conical stack, c 43m high, and connected to the land by a narrow neck of rock. Two small trenches were positioned in order to get a cross-section of the site and also to record archaeological deposits which were found to be eroding out of the slopes. Pottery, stone tools (including a possible broken leaf-shaped arrowhead) and burnt bone (from an as yet unknown source) were found, the former two being consistent with a Late Neolithic date. The site is thought to be concerned with large-scale burning on the summit plateau, c 10 x 5m, to which an access route was clear in places. This could have included two extant walls, up to 1m high, the uppermost skirting the plateau, the lower rising around the contour but becoming indistinct as it nears the plateau. The upper wall at least was earlier or contemporary with the burning. Apertures resembling drains were found in both walls. Time did not allow the full depth of deposit, or indeed a range of interesting features, to be excavated.
Sponsors: HS, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
I McHardy, M Elliott, G Laidlaw 2005
