Archaeology Notes

Event ID 657268

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657268

NF87NW 1 8242 7843.

(NF 8242 7843) '... a ritual complex, of an orthostatic circle with associated cists amounting to a graveyard clearly extending well beyond the limits of this excavation,' was partially explored in 1964. It lies some 400ft due NW of the main mediaeval settlement at Udal (NF87NW 2). The complex appears to have been systematically robbed (so far as excavated at present) by the depositors of a large midden heap which abutts on to the ritual enclosure. Pottery fragments and the structures themselves indicate a Bronze-to-Iron Age dating. Excavation was abandoned as the discovery did not relate directly to the mediaeval settlement.

I A Crawford 1964.

Further evidence, but not yet conclusive, indicates a Neolithic-Iron Age burial complex.

Information in telecommunication from I A Crawford (School of Scottish Studies) to OS.