Lady Glassary Wood Car Park
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Lady Glassary Wood Car Park
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 141647
Site Number NR89NW 125
NGR NR 8299 9760
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141647
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR89NW 125 8299 9760
Site recorded in January 1998 during a programme of geophysical surveying and archaeological monitoring conducted during the construction of new public access pathways and a new visitor car park within the Kilmartin Glen.
NR 8299 9760 Lady Glassary Wood Car Park. Excavation revealed a crescent or boomerang shape of burnt, blackened and fire-cracked stone and black silt measuring 3 x 1.8m at its widest points. The two ends or terminals of the feature both taper to a width of 0.3m with one pointing E and the other N. Two exploratory trenches were excavated in order to gauge the depth and nature of deposits. Preliminary TL and radiocarbon results suggest a date in the third millennium BC for the use of the burnt mound.
Sponsors: Kilmartin Glen Project, University of Glasgow - Dept of Archaeology, SURRC.
D Abernethy 1998
Excavation (January 1998)
NR 8299 9760 Lady Glassary Wood Car Park. Excavation revealed a crescent or boomerang shape of burnt, blackened and fire-cracked stone and black silt measuring 3 x 1.8m at its widest points. The two ends or terminals of the feature both taper to a width of 0.3m with one pointing E and the other N. Two exploratory trenches were excavated in order to gauge the depth and nature of deposits. Preliminary TL and radiocarbon results suggest a date in the third millennium BC for the use of the burnt mound.
Sponsors: Kilmartin Glen Project, University of Glasgow - Dept of Archaeology, SURRC.
D Abernethy 1998
Note (6 May 2020)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.
