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Excavation
Date 1993
Event ID 748729
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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NF19NW 25 1020 9950
At An Lag Bho'n Tuath the first season of excavation concentrated on a pair of stone settings (NF 1020 9950) recorded by earlier surveys. These features perhaps unfortunately termed 'boat-shapes', appear to represent the central settings of sub-circular cairns. A series of kerbs were visible within the larger of the two cairns, which lay immediately NW of its neighbour. The two cairns appear to be joined and it is possible that the more substantial of the two was constructed later, perhaps including material robbed from the earlier structure. In the central area of the larger cairn were traces of various pits and cuts, some of which appear to run beneath the stone setting and cairn. No finds were recovered from the central area, but several coarse stone tools, including what may be ard tips were recovered from the matrix of the smaller cairn. These cairns and stone settings may represent funerary monuments but further excavation will be required before such an interpretation can be verified.
A Morrison, P Johnson and A Pollard 1993.
