Glencoe Survey

Date 1996

Event ID 576235

Category Project

Type Project

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An archaeological survey has been undertaken to inform the National Trust for Scotland of the range of archaeological features on their Glencoe Estate, with additional information relating to historic sources, management, interpretation and possibilities for future research.

J Harden and J Wordsworth 1996

People and Organisations

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
547200	RECORDING	TRIAL TRENCH	During an archaeological evaluation of a proposed pipeline route in Janu ary 1993 a trench was dug close to the shoreline within the area selected as the temporary storage area. Directly below the turf a layer of loose angular stonework was located. This material was not waterworn and was interpreted as dumped material. Amongst this, lying directly under the turf, a piece of badly decayed ironware of indeterminable nature was recovered. The trench bottomed out at 25cm on to the natural rock. [...]	January 1993
547198	RECORDING	TRIAL TRENCH	During an archaeological evaluation of a proposed pipeline route in January 1993 a trench was sunk to examine one of several raised disc shaped features, 15-20m in diameter, much drier than the surrounding boggy ground. The feature tested had no archaeological significance, with the trench bottoming out at 0.25m where a natural outcrop of rock lay close to the surface, creating the surface feature. [...]	January 1993
576242	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NN 118 560 Enclosure and rig cultivation. [...]	1996

Related Collection Item(s)

MS 8054

Report: 'Glencoe Archaeological Survey 1996, Volume 1 and 2' by Jill Harden and Jonathan Wordsworth

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