EHG228 - Excavation - By-Pass Water Main, Loch Ashie

An excavation was carrie out by CFA in 1999 before the commencement of new pipeline works near Loch Ashie. The excavation work was a continuation of the survey previously conducted by Wordsworth Archaeology Services (see EHG). A series of nine cairns and two dykes were located within the project area. Excavation showed that remains considered to be a hut circle represented a clearance cairn with a deflated centre. All the cairns revealed very simple construction processes with little material suitable for dating. They were all reasonably well preserved. The dykes examined were generally poorly preserved, surviving as linear mounds of stone, with limited internal structure visible. A series of ard marks appeared to respect the edge of one of the cairns. A single flint flake was recovered from within a stone dyke and may indicate a prehistoric date for the feature. <1>