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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 677821
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677821
NN63NE 19 6744 3623.
According to the farmer at Dall, this 'cairn', possibly a crannog can only be seen when the water level is exceptionally low.
Visited by OS 25 August 1969.
This crannog is situated about 150m SE of NN63NE 26 and is of similar size but the sloping top varies between 0.7m and 1.5m below the surface and the lowest point is at a depth of 3.8m. In 1979 examination revealed projecting timbers and a scatter of burnt bone in a deposit of bracken and moss.
This is probably the second of the two 'cairns' noted by Gillies near Ardeonaig, either that 'to the west of the spot where the Alltvin Burn enters the loch' or that 'in the little bay below Dall farmhouse'.
See also NN63NE 26.
W A Gillies 1938; T N Dixon 1983; I Morrison 1985
As part of the Scottish Crannog Survey a number of sites in Loch Tay, originally surveyed in 1979 (PSAS 1982, 17-38), were resurveyed in August 2000.
NN 674 362 Dall Farm (South). Part of a rotary quern, not previously recorded, was observed on the NW edge of the site (NN63NE 19). The relationship of the Dall Bay crannogs offers the possibility of investigating a sequence of occupation, moving from one crannog to the next, since Dall (North) lies deeper in the loch and suggests that it may relate to an earlier and lower loch level. Both sites have visible structural timbers that would be suitable for sampling for radiocarbon dating.
Sponsors: Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology, University of Edinburgh - Dept of Archaeology.
N Dixon and G Cavers 2000
A summary of the work carried out by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology in 2004 is included in The University of Edinburgh's 50th Annual Report, 2004.
N Dixon 2004
