Archaeological Evaluation

Date May 2000

Event ID 584040

Category Recording

Type Archaeological Evaluation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/584040

Site 9. Rock shelter, roughly 7.5m across and 5.5m wide, located in old cliff face above raised beach near SW corner of island. Trial trench evaluation across mouth of cave revealed a series of occupation deposits; environmental remains yielded a large quantities of marine shell, bone, charcoal and small quantity of charred hazel nutshells. Basal deposit in cave radiocarbon-dated to the period cal 346-4 BC.

Lowe 2008