Trial Trench

Date 2006

Event ID 551398

Category Recording

Type Trial Trench

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/551398

HP 566 040 A desk-based study and programme of trial trenching were carried out in response to a proposal to extend the existing cemetery at Lund. The site lies adjacent to the 12th-century church, dedicated to St Olaf, and an existing cemetery. Numerous sites of all periods are recorded within the wider hinterland. Trenching covered some 20% of the proposed extension area; localised but ill-defined deposits of an archaeological nature were noted. These consisted of ash-rich soils, a small amount of coarse pottery and some possibly worked quartz flakes.

Sponsor: Shetland Islands Council.

H Moore and G Wilson, 2006.