Watching Brief

Date 2001

Event ID 553869

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553869

NF 101 991 (centre) Scheduled Monument Consent required watching briefs of various works at the MoD base on Hirta in 2001. The replacement of more than 200m of the fuel pipeline across the croftlands S of the road led to the recovery of residual artefacts from the disturbed ground. These include about 80 sherds of hand-made pottery (Iron Age or later), as well as some 19th/20th-century artefacts. Work at the septic tank revealed previously disturbed ground and no archaeological features or finds.

Report to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: NTS.

M Taylor 2002a