Meikle Tarrel
Shell Midden (Period Unknown)
Site Name Meikle Tarrel
Classification Shell Midden (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 15644
Site Number NH98SW 20
NGR NH 9042 8039
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Tarbat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Exposed by soil erosion on the top of the coastal slope at NH 9044 8041 is a short band of cockle shells 0.4m below the surface.
Visited by OS (J B) 24 February 1981.
Small lens of limpets, whelks located in banking beside grass track. Underlies less than 0.4m of reddish silty sand with a similar depth below. Shell band about 0.1m thick. No sign of organic inclusions. A few cobbles appear in this lens 0.1m to 0.15m diameter. No appearance of a midden.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
Field Visit (September 1977)
Meikle Tarrel NH 904 804 NH98SW
Traces of a shell-midden are exposed on the neck of a coastal promontory 600m SE of Meikle Tarrel.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1977
