Monument record MHG12862 - Midden, 70yds N of Ferry House, Tongue Ferry

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 5694 5868 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC55NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND

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Full Description

NC55NE 21 5695 5868.
A shell mound on W shore of the Kyle of Tongue, about 70 yards N of Ferry House, stands on 25ft raised beach, and is exposed for about 20 yards. Examination indicated that the shells included oyster, mussel, limpet, whelk and cockle; and also produced a 'stone celt', of igneous rock, probably dolerite, incomplete, having been fractured at one end. Near it was a hammer-stone of basalt, 4.5ins long and about 2ins across, apparently a water-rounded beach stone. Scattered among the debris were fragments of five pots, closely resembling Neolithic and Bronze Age sepulchral pottery, but there was no indications of a burial. Pieces of long bones, evidently split for marrow, also occured, as did a quartzite flake, numerous burnt stones and a piece of slag.
A Neolithic date is tentatively suggested for the mound. The finds were donated to NMAS. Ferry House has not been located, but W end of the ferry was at NC 5695 5868.
OS 6" map, Sutherlandshire, 1st ed., (1874); J Horne and B N Peach 1898

Inverness FC Vol IV p 29 - HAW 9.2002

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Horne, J and Peach, B N. 1895. 'A shell mound at Tongue Ferry', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, Vol 4, 1888-95, pp 29-35. pp 30-35.

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Record last edited

Jan 15 2010 1:29PM

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