Strip And Record

Date 2010

Event ID 633324

Category Recording

Type Strip And Record

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NM 28500 24050 Two thin dumps of midden over natural windblown sand were exposed and hand excavated during a controlled topsoil strip at Block House in 2010. The midden contained animal bone (cattle and sheep/goat) and fish bone (cod etc), pottery and a few carbonised grains of barley and oats. A radiocarbon date from a charred barley grain dated the deposits to the later medieval period (1480–1650 AD – SUERC-29247, GU-21441). A shallow rectangular pit was recorded cutting through a cultivated soil. The base of this midden-rich soil was scarred by narrow cuts, which may have been the remnants of ploughing.

Archive: RCAHMS

Funder: Mr Erdal

Clare Ellis – Argyll Archaeology