EHG2937 - Uamh An Eich Bhric

NG 3028 3264 A massive rock shelter at the foot of the W-facing 120m high cliffs lying to the W of Fiskavaig on the Isle of Skye. The shelter contains a well stratified midden of late 1st century AD date that is being rapidly eroded by rising sea level and storm action. A number of bronze artefacts, pottery, animal bone and the lower stone of a rotary quern have been recovered from the collapsed sections of the midden face. A series of markers were set in the shelter in December 2006, in order to monitor the rate of erosion during the winter of 2006/7. As of October 2007 a further 1.2m has been lost from the midden face. Archive and finds currently retained by Archaeological and Ancient Landscape Survey. Reports deposited with Highland Council and Historic Scotland. Funder: Martin Wildgoose, Steven Birch, George Kozikowski and Ian Suddaby. <1>