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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675348

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675348

NM81SW 9 8405 1475

(NM 8405 1475) Cave (NAT)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

A cave was discovered in the side of the hill known as An Sidhean when a Hydro-Electric power station was being built in 1956. It was excavated by members of the Dept of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. Excavation revealed a single occupation horizon yielding a backed blade and scraper industry on flint and quartz. The flints are not typical either of the Scottish microlithic or of the west coastal Mesolithic industries.

J M Coles 1959.

Only a small portion of the cave now survives, measuring 3 metres deep and 4 metres in height at the entrance, and narrowing to 1.5 metres at the end.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (D W R), 29 September 1971.

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