Site Event/Activity record EHG1178 - Evaluation - Inverness Airport Access Road, Petty

Location

Location Inverness Airport
Grid reference Centred NH 7645 5122 (548m by 441m)
Map sheet NH75SE
Operational Area INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
Civil Parish PETTY
Geographical Area INVERNESS

Technique(s)

Organisation

Headland Archaeology Ltd

Date

July 2004

Map

Description

SUAT were commissioned to undertake an evaluation on two sites affected by the proposed route of a new access road to Inverness Airport in 2004. The sites were three mounds known as Cnoc an t Sidhean and a row of crofts. Ten mechanically-dug trenches, each 50m in length and 1.8m wide, were excavated over and between the two mounds directly affected by the route of the new road. This revealed that the mounds were natural in origin and contained no archaeological deposits. Two pits cut into the natural contained modern finds. The site of the C18 crofts lay partly in forestry and partly in an adjacent field. Evaluation in the field, consisting of two trenches (trench 12 measured 50m x 1.8m and trench 13 measured 40m x 1.8m) failed to find any evidence of the crofts. In the wooded area the site of one previously recorded croft was further investigated which included limited excavation, consisting of eight sondages, on the clay bonded foundation walls of the croft remains. In addition passages were cut through thick bracken growth in an effort to identify further remains. A watching brief was to be conducted on both of the sites and the remainder of the proposed access route when sopil stripping and ground preparation was to take place. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Cachart, R.. 2004. Archaeological Evaluation: Inverness Airport Access Road, Inverness. Headland Archaeology Ltd. 09/09/2004. Digital.

Related Monuments/Buildings (4)

  • Cnoc an t Sidhean (Monument)
  • Possible hearth - Inverness Airport Access Road (Monument)
  • Post-medieval croft - near Inverness Airport, Petty (Monument)
  • Post-medieval house - near Inverness Airport, Petty (Monument)

Record last edited

Oct 21 2014 11:08AM

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