EHG3069 - Excavation - Langwell Farm, Strath Oykel

A team from Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division carried out salvage excavation of the remaining contents of a cist, which had been distubed by a mechanical excavator during peat clearing works. Details of the cist's construction were recorded and the site of a second possible cist was investigated. Attempts to excavate a section across the cist were unsuccessful due to the frozen ground condition, but the accidental collapse of the northern slab allowed partial examination of the cut. Bones which had previously been removed by the police were retrieved from Dornoch police station for scientific analysis. <1> The findings of the excavation and the environmental work carried out later the same year were subsequently published. <2>