Watching Brief

Date 2001

Event ID 822934

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NS03NW 46 008 359

NS 008 359 A controlled topsoil-stripping operation and watching brief was conducted on a 2.5ha site in Glen Cloy to the W of Brodick, in advance of a hotel and leisure complex development.

This led to the discovery of a roundhouse of probable Late Iron Age date (c 15m diameter) and an associated complex souterrain consisting of two long, narrow, unlined passages and at least one stone-lined chamber. Several small shallow pits were located scattered across the western half of the site and two areas of ashy midden spread produced several sherds of medieval ceramics. Finds include a bronze spiral finger ring, rotary querns, worked coal artefacts, metalworking slag/blooms, and medieval pottery.

Report to be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsor: Auchrannie Leisure Ltd.

G Mudie 2001.