Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656917

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF87SE 22 8937 7096.

NF 894 711 Iron Age pottery was found during recent quarrying in a small mound successively occupied by a shieling and now a late-19th century house.

The pottery is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

I A Crawford 1964; Information from Norman Johnstone, Lochmaddy.

The exact find-spot of the pottery was indicated, at NF 8937 7096, by Mrs Robertson (A J Robertson, Bonnie Blink, Lochmaddy) whose husband dug it up in 1963.

It was found in a low amorphous mound in which were also found ashes and stones, suitable for building purposes, suggesting an Iron Age settlement site.

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1965.

Obliterated by bulldozer during building extensions in 1977.

I A Crawford 1980.