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Rona, Acairseid Mhor

Rock Shelter (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Rona, Acairseid Mhor

Classification Rock Shelter (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Acairseid Mhor 8

Canmore ID 240695

Site Number NG65NW 8

NGR NG 6089 5680

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Portree
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG65NW 8 6089 5680

Recorded between May and September 2002 as part of the Scotland's First Settlers Project and the Sea Loch Survey.

NG 6089 5680 Acairseid Mhor 8 Rock shelter, shovel pitted: lithics recovered

Sponsors: HS, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, British Academy

K Hardy and C R Wickham-Jones 2002

Activities

Field Visit (April 2014)

NG 60891 56890 to NG 62287 56678 A field survey was undertaken in April 2014 of the area surrounding Rona Lodge, Acairseid Mhor. From fieldwalking the area 76 features were indentified, photographed and recorded by taped offset at a scale of 1:100. The findings were published in an ACFA Occasional Paper No. 132. The features included rock shelters, a boat noost, slipways, platforms, enclosures, longhouses, stores, a spring chamber, a large cairn and several small clearance cairns. A quern store was also found.

Archive: University of Glasgow Library and British Library

Libby King – Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 17)

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