Upper Suisgill
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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- 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.
