EHG3460 - Trial trenching, Ness Gap (Areas B-G), Fortrose

Headland Archaeology Ltd conducted an evaluation at a proposed housing development site off Ness Road, Fortrose in order to satisfy a planning condition placed by Highland Council. The work was commissioned by Tulloch Homes Ltd. A total of fifty trenches were excavated over 3 fields of the development to provide a 7% sample, and found prehistoric features including an urned cremation, a stone cist with a Bronze Age food vessel and a further possible cist. The cist and possible cist were close together but the urned cremation, badly truncated by ploughing, was located almost 200m to the E. <1>