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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 748976
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/748976
NH64NW 41 6102 4764.
(Location cited as NH 610 476). The site is situated on a sub-tidal sandbank and when exposed at low tide is 1m above local datum. The smallest site in the Beauly Firth group, it measures 25m long and 18m wide. The oval mound consists of seaweed-covered boulders beneath which are pebbles and estuarine sediments. Random sampling produced shells, wood fragments and brushwood remains, however, no timbers have been found.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, The Russell Trust, University of Edinburgh.
A Hale 1994.
Location refined to NH 6102 4764.
Infromation from Dr R Jingley (Historic Scotland), 3 April 1998.
Intertidal crannog - observed but not visited.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.