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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 672581

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM04NE 12 centred 065 476

NM 065 476. Settlement is suggested by the occurrence of pottery, some of it decorated, and implements of iron at a depth of 8 ft in the sandhills at Ruaigh. Two flints, one of them a thumb scraper, were also found in 1958.

Beveridge had previously found a flint and a hammer-stone as well as pottery in the same area. (E Beveridge 1903)

E R Cregeen 1958; E Beveridge 1903.

The only evidence for a settlement is a scatter of undecorated pottery in the dunes.

Visited by OS (D W R) 21 June 1972.

Sherds of pottery from the dunes at Ruaigh were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1973-4 by the RCAHMS. The accession numbers of artifacts from here, in the NMAS, are - HD 1927-32 and HR 1343-4.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1975; RCAHMS 1980.

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