Nairn, King Steps Quarry
Flake(S) (Quartz)(Prehistoric), Flake(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric), Lithic Implement(S) (Stone)(Prehistoric)
Site Name Nairn, King Steps Quarry
Classification Flake(S) (Quartz)(Prehistoric), Flake(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric), Lithic Implement(S) (Stone)(Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Kingsteps Quarries
Canmore ID 15113
Site Number NH85NE 27
NGR NH 8997 5712
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15113
- Council Highland
- Parish Nairn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85NE 27 8997 5712
See also NH85NE 465.
Rough stone and flint implements found in association with charcoal, and encased in a bed of peat covered by sand above Kingsteps quarries, indicate Mesolithic occupation. The peat has been radio-carbon - dated to c. 5500 BC.
J B Simpson 1954; Information from Nairnshire Telegraph, 8 March 1960.
Flakes of flint and quartz from Kings Step Quarry [Kingsteps Quarries: NH85NE 465] were donated to the (NMAS) by Dr J B Simpson, Nairn. (AC 650-3)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1962.
According to local information the finds mady by Dr Simpson, now deceased, came from the NE end of Kingsteps Quarries in the area centred NH 8997 5712. The quarries are now disused and overgrown.
Visited by OS (R L) 8 December 1970.
Note (1978)
Kingsteps Quarry NH 899 571 NH85NE 27
Mesolithic flints, probably dating to the Boreal/Atlantic transition, have been excavated at Kingsteps Quarry. The finds are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS AC 650-3).
RCAHMS 1978
Knox 1955; PSAS, xciii (1959-60), 252, no. 1
