Inchmarnock, Northpark

NS 020 600 (island centre) The Archaeology of Inchmarnock Research Project, initated by the island's new owner, Lord Smith, was undertaken over the period 1999 to 2004 with the aim of providing as complete a record as possible of the island's archaeology; of identifying and understanding better what was there, precisely where it was, and how it might be preserved for future generations.

The overarching objectives of the project were to consider how Inchmarnock's inhabitants made use of their island landscape in the medieval and later period and how the island itself related to the wider world.

The preliminary results of each season's fieldwork, together with assessments of the artefacts and environmental remains recovered, were reported on an annual basis. In tandem with this was an extensive radiocarbon-dating programme, providing the chronological framework for the investigation.

Sponsor: Sir Robert Smith

Headland Archaeology, C Lowe 2008

NS 0200 6089 Site 18 Five cists of unknown type are reported to have been discovered near the SW corner of the yard at Northpark in the early 1980s. Unearthed by the tenant, Dan Boag, and subsequently seen by Mr Middleton senior (Jessica Herriot, pers comm).

Lowe 2008

Northpark farmsteading has been abandoned for a number of years and there is nothing now visible of the cists previously noted.

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 3 June 2009.