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Excavation

Date May 2003

Event ID 995262

Category Recording

Type Excavation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/995262

Headland Archaeology Ltd excavated two Early Bronze Age short cists and several outlying undated features discovered unexpectedly during topsoiling operations in advance of the second phase of a housing development being built by Tulloch Homes Ltd. at Holm Mains farm located to the south-west of Inverness.

The larger of the two cists contained a male individual placed in a crouched position. Accompanying this burial were two barbed and tanged arrowheads, ten other lithics tools and the fragments of a finely decorated beaker pot. The second cist was, by contrast, in a much poorer state of preservation but contained an adult male accompanied by a

single beaker pot. Outlying features comprised several pits and ditches, located near the to the cists but which produced no artefacts to aid with dating and there was nothing to link these discoveries to the two cists. The cists uncovered at Holm Mains are part of a group centred in the Culduthel area near the site of the Inverness Royal Academy and the present work provides a secure context through which to view the older discoveries.

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