Site Event/Activity record EHG43 - Marking-out Survey - Eilean Fladday

The tidal island of Eilean Fladday lies off the northwestern coast of Raasay. The planting scheme comprises a complicated pattern of planting, covering roughly a third of the island. Before fieldwork the survey area supported small groups of broadleaf trees, but most of the areas consisted of heather moorland towards the north and west and improved pasture around the township to the south-east. The fieldwork consisted of revisiting previously identified sites and accurately mapping them with a Total Station EDM on an arbitrary grid which was linked to OS. A marking-out survey was also undertaken. The products of fieldwork therefore comprised of the following: amendment to 1:10,000 scale mapping; production of 1:2,500 scale mapping; amendments to previous report/gazetteer; marking-out of the identified sites with bamboo canes. <1>