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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656784

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656784

NF77SW 7 7195 7408.

(NF 7197 7407) Erd Houses (NR) (Site of)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

At Kilpheder, coastal erosion has revealed thin layers of kitchen-midden and traces of a slight single wall, which curves in a northerly direction for several yards and seems to represent part of the underground linings of one of the earth-houses indicated by the OS. Finds from the former site include potsherds, hammer-stones, iron slag and a single cut-marked bone.

A potsherd and an oval pebble fragment are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

E Beveridge 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1916 and 1922.

At NF 7195 7408 a dune has been eroded by the sea, exposing a sand face c. 30.0m long. Midden material, a burnt layer about 1 1/2inches thick and building remains (probably of an earth-house) are exposed in the face. See plan and section. There are insufficient remains to justify survey action.

The second earth-house was not located.

Visited by OS (J T T) 16 June 1965.

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