EHG3086 - Peat survey - Acharacle Primary School

In July 2009 a sub peat and findspot survey, coupled to palaeoenvironmental assessment, was undertaken in response to the recovery of five radially split wooden planks recovered in the exposed section of a newly cut drainage ditch. The ditch was cut under archaeological supervision during preparation works for a playing field adjacent to the new primary school at Acharacle. The survey recorded both the topography of the peat floor and the present ground surface at 5 m intervals, with closer 1 m interval sampling in the vicinity of the findspot and in two previously identified surface mounds of possible archaeological significance. A rapid assessment of the exposed drainage ditch sections identified a further mound feature and anthropogenic cut features in this newly identified mound, and in one of the previously identified mounds. The peat in the vicinity of the findspot of the previously recovered wooden planks was sampled. No further artefacts were recovered. <1>