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Port An Righ
Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Port An Righ
Classification Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Moray Firth
Canmore ID 290106
Site Number NH87SW 50
NGR NH 8542 7352
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/290106
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH87SW 50 8542 7352
See also NH87SW 49.
Shell midden in section, actively eroding. Limpets, periwinkles mostly. Underlies topsoil. Overlies gravel, shells and gravel, sand layers. (Finds from base of erosion among sand and shell on beach). Lovely site, shells in an organic matrix with bits of charcoal and some angular pebbles and cobbles in section on a relict beach with sand and gravel below, all about 2m-2.5m above present sea level. Rapid erosion here, half a building (NH87SW 49) lost in last 100yrs. All the lenses overleaf were dry and crumbly.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
