South Keanchulish
Cave (Period Unassigned), Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name South Keanchulish
Classification Cave (Period Unassigned), Midden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 12133
Site Number NH19NW 1
NGR NH 1204 9930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12133
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH19NW 1 1204 9930
NH 121 994. A rock shelter with underlying midden is sited on a 25' raised beach in the angle of a sheltered estuary. Fifteen feet of overhang of Torridonian sandstone remains over an extensive and apparently deep deposit of oyster, limpet, mussel and cockle-shells with bone and deer antler tines. No artifacts were observed. An estate road removed a corner of the midden some 30 years ago, and a wooden bowl is alleged to have been recovered then. Further recent road improvements has removed a substantial portion of the deposit, but at least half the cone of dejection remains. This has the appearance of a typical Mesolithic or pre-pottery Neolithic rock shelter.
I A Crawford 1965
NH 1204 9930. As described.
Visited by OS (A A) 8 October 1974.
