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External Reference
Date 2011
Event ID 962055
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962055
Round house, one of 29 identified in a walkover survey as part of the High Pasture Cave and Environs project (site LS06). Diameter 14m, with a rubble-filled stone built wall of approximately 1.6m width. It is situated 30m above sea level, and has a SE facing entrance. The round house and associated burnt mound were excavated in 2011, and dated to the middle Iron Age (370-170BC). Finds included pottery, lithics, hearth slabs, charcoals, burnt bone and carbonised seed and a soapstone tuyure fragment.
Wildgoose, M. And Glover, S. Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave) and Environs Project, Landscape Evaluation Data Structure Report 2006-2010.
Information from the ARCH Community Timeline Course, 2011
