Monument record MHG9345 - Upper Suisgill
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NC 8977 2505 (160m by 160m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NC82NE |
Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
Old County | SUTHERLAND |
Civil Parish | KILDONAN |
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Type and Period (2)
Full Description
NC82NE 36 8977 2505.
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.
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SHG1616 Text/Publication/Article: Armit, I. 1992. 'The Atlantic Scottish Iron Age: five levels of chronology', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 121 1991, p.181-214. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 181-214. 207.
- --- SHG1794 Text/Publication/Article: Harden, G. 1985. 'Upper Suisgill (Kildonan p) settlement', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1985, p.27. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 27. 27.
- --- SHG1795 Text/Publication/Article: Barclay, G J. 1981. 'Upper Suisgill (Kildonan p) settlement: cup-marked stone', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1981, p.21. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 21. 21.
- --- SHG1796 Text/Publication/Article: Barclay, G {J}. 1980. 'Upper Suisgill (Kildonan p), souterrains, ard marks, buildings', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1980, p.19-20. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 19-20. 19-20.
- --- SHG748 Text/Publication/Article: Barclay, G J. 1987. 'Excavations at Upper Suisgill, Sutherland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 115 1985, p.159-98. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 159-98. fiche 1: C1-D4.
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Record last edited
May 13 2016 12:00AM