Excavation

Date April 1986 - June 1986

Event ID 991466

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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The final season of work at stone circles Sites I and XI involved extending the area under excavation to incorporate the two former trenches (Discovery Excav Scot 1985, 41-2).

At Site I postholes representing the complete circuit of the former timber circle directly underlying the stone circle were located, as was a further concentric ring of postholes outwith the stone circle. The central features thought to be two phases of pits resolved themselves into a c 6m diameter ring of large postholes with scoops, presumably to facilitate the erection of the timber uprights. Within Site I a further posthole ring was found which was not concentric with the other three.

Several new lines of stakeholes which possibly indicate the use of hurdle fences were found.

Many more finds of pitchstone and flint were made and some pit features produced large amounts of pottery.

A Haggarty

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