Field Visit

Date December 2006

Event ID 557861

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557861

NG 3028 3264 A massive rock shelter at the foot of the W-facing 120m high cliffs lying to the W of Fiskavaig on the Isle of Skye. The shelter contains a well stratified midden of late 1stcentury AD date that is being rapidly eroded by rising sea level and storm action. A number of bronze artefacts, pottery, animal bone and the lower stone of a rotary quern have been recovered from the collapsed sections of the midden face. A series of markers were set in the shelter in December 2006, in order to monitor the rate of erosion during the winter of 2006/7. As of October 2007 a further 1.2m has been lost from the midden face.

Archive and finds currently retained by Archaeological and Ancient Landscape Survey. Reports deposited with Highland Council and Historic Scotland.

Funder: Martin Wildgoose, Steven Birch, George Kozikowski and Ian Suddaby.