Building (Post Medieval), Cultivation Remains (Bronze Age) - (Iron Age), Settlement (Bronze Age) - (Iron Age)
Site Name Upper Suisgill
Classification Building (Post Medieval), Cultivation Remains (Bronze Age) - (Iron Age), Settlement (Bronze Age) - (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 6665
Site Number NC82NE 36
NGR NC 8977 2505
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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SC 1893485
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Detail of unlabelled feature viewed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893488
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II from the east.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893508
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - features cut into natural.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893514
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - postholes cut into natural.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893535
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - roundhouse.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893544
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph General view of site, looking W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893546
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - posthole F562 and ardmarks.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893547
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - temporary N-S section between I / IA, I, IA / II.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893549
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - roundhouse during excavation.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893563
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square E5 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893569
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square F8 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893594
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893597
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893603
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893637
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area III: Natural from the NE.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893643
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IV: Subsoil surface or souterrain ditch fill. From E.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893648
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: General view from the E.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893649
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph General view.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893658
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: Flue/drain 133 and posthole 121 from the SE.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893685
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893686
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893689
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893696
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: F234 from S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893707
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Context 340.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893709
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Context 343: excavated post-hole.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893733
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: Ardmarks.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893738
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: F260. From W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893748
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Ardmarks etc. From W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893753
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: Waterlogged branch. From N.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893754
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: F403. From S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893760
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Excavated features.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893767
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893771
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893777
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893778
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893782
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Trenches A, B, C, D and E.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893783
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Trenches A, B, C, D and E.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893787
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: F237. From S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893794
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IIA from the W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893795
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: Cobbled surface from the S.
Central Excavation Unit
22/8/1980
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SC 1893797
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: F317. From N.
Central Excavation Unit
25/8/1980
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SC 1893800
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IIA: F316.
Central Excavation Unit
22/8/1980
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SC 1893832
Upper Suisgill excavation archive Wooden object. PED 79 R159.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893839
Upper Suisgill excavation archive Excavating by machine.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893841
Upper Suisgill excavation archive Working shot.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893844
Upper Suisgill excavation archive Working shot.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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DP 080126
Oblique aerial view of the remains of the township buildings and rig, and the site of the excavations, taken from the SW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
29/5/2009
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SC 1893490
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph General view of the site from Suisgill Burn.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893495
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area III: natural. From NE.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893501
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - looking south-east.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893512
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - stakeholes and gully F545 in primary bank.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893515
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - general view of roundhouse, looking S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893529
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - roundhouse during excavation.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893534
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - roundhouse.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893548
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - N-facing section through bank.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893555
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square C2 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893556
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square C3 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893568
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square F6 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893578
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square C6 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893585
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Areas B, C, D and E.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893589
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893608
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893614
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Layer photographed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893632
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Field adjacent to site from the NE.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893639
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: 055 from the N.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893645
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: 076 from the S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893654
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: Negative features from the W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893660
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: Surface 110 and flue/drain 133 from the W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893666
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: Negative features from the W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893669
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: team member.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893684
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893688
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893691
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: pre-clearance structures from the W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893706
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Context 235.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893716
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA: Features 235 and 237. From S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893724
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Feature 331. From SE.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893730
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: F265. From S
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893735
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area II: Ardmarks.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893761
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Excavated features.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893772
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893775
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IA/II: Features viewed through planning frame for photogrammetry.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893791
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IIA: F329. From N.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893803
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area IIA: F323. From W.
Central Excavation Unit
22/8/1980
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SC 1893810
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I/II and IIA: Pre-clearance structures from the N.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893811
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I: F178. From W.
Central Excavation Unit
18/8/1980
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SC 1893828
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893830
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph General view.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893847
Upper Suisgill excavation archive Working shot - machine excavation.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893481
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area III: Pit 032 from the south.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893483
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Detail of unlabelled feature viewed through planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893505
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II; F605, looking N.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893507
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - features cut into natural, looking S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893513
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA - stone packed posthole cut into natural.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893519
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - stakeholes in roundhouse.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893520
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - F695, hearth.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893528
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA / II - roundhouse during excavation, looking S.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893538
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Area I / IA primary bank section, looking W.
Central Excavation Unit
1980
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SC 1893553
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square C1 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893564
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square E6 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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SC 1893580
Upper Suisgill excavation photograph Photogrammetry: Square C8 viewed through a planning frame.
Central Excavation Unit
2/1981
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC82NE 36 8977 2505
See also NC82NE 35.
The area immediately E of the souterrain (NC82NE 35) was examined in advance of roadworks, the following sequence being recorded.
(i) Evidence of ard cultivation.
(ii) An Iron Age occupation surface surviving in a hollow and bounded to the E by a stone-faced earth bank which appears to have enclosed a substantial area between the present A897 and the Suisgill Burn. To the W of the enclosure bank a series of possible land divisions was investigated.
(iii) Resumption of ard cultivation within the enclosed area. At this stage most of the site to the W of the stone-faced bank was covered by a deep gravel wash from the high ground to the N of the site.
(iv) The surface of the gravel wash was occupied by a series of stone and wooden boundary features, which were in turn covered by a gravel wash.
(v) A scoop was cut into the top of the gravel to provide a platform on which a rectangular post-medieval structure was erected. This building was probably part of the post-medieval settlement which lay to the NE of the area under investigation.
(vi) The northern half of the building was removed to allow the construction of a road, as yet undated, which, by coincidence, followed the route now planned for the realignment.
G J Barclay 1980.
The site now lies beneath the new road.
Visited by OS 30.10.81.
The finds from the excavation are now in Inverness Museum.
G Harden 1985.

