Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675119

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675119

NM76NE 7 788 683.

Over 100 flint and bloodstone flakes and two crumbs of unglazed pottery were found in a drain behind the house and several flint and pitchstone flakes and a curved piece of lignite were dug up in the garden. A saddle quern, obviously moved fr om its original site during road construction works, was found behind the byre. The boulder on which it occurred measured 0.54m x 0.37m. On the convex under-surface was a single cup mark 0.08m in diameter by 0.03m deep.

J Kirby 1983.

Finds are in Royal Museum of Scotland (NMS).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1981.

Listed. (Details obtainable from Lochaber Forest District Office, Torlundy, Fort William.)

J Kirby 1992.