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Excavation
Date 1995
Event ID 554268
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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NF 771 739 During survey of the Gerisclett area a small burnt mound was identified close to the stream flowing from Loch nan Clachan into the inter-tidal Vallay Strand. The site comprises a crescentic, grassed-over mound being actively eroded by the tide, and areas of walling were clearly exposed in the eroding areas. Several sherds of pottery were recovered from the exposed sections.
Small scale trial excavations were carried out revealing that the mound comprised rapidly accumulated, apparently burnt stone, forming a crescentic voided heap. In the eroding part of the mound was set a square or rectilinear drystone structure containing a substantial hearth and yeilding small fragments of plain pottery. Although it is possible that the stone structures represent shielings or medieval domestic buildings built into an already ancient burnt mound, the apparent integrity of the surface features of the mound suggest otherwise.
I Armit and A Braby 1995.
