Archaeology Notes

Event ID 868912

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS05NW 42 02196 58325.

Site 16. This is a small cave or rock shelter, roughly 10m wide at the mouth, 2m wide at the rear and 6m deep, located in the cliff face above the old raised beach at the south end of the island. The site was partially excavated in 2002, following an earlier investigation in 2000 which had established that it contained evidence of both Iron Age and early medieval activity. primary deposits in the cave had been radiocarbon dated to the period cal AD 679-888 (AA-39968).

Lowe 2008

This rock-shelter, which is situated in a SW-facing cliff at the rear of the raised beach at the southern tip of Inchmarnock, is as previously described. Another shelter (NS05NW 35) is situated some 180m to the W.

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, MM, GB) 3 June 2009.