EHG4838 - Excavation - Farm Fields, Kinloch, Rhum

The site was discovered in the summer of 1983 during ploughing by the Nature Conservancy Council. Rhum is mountainous and barren. The excavated site at Farm Fields is situated in one of the larger pockets of fertile land, that at the head of Loch Scresort on the E coast. Farm Fields revealed extensive evidence of mesolithic occupation with pits, postholes and a lithic assemblage including over 200 microliths. A range of radiocarbon dates, beginning early in the seventh millennium BC, indicates that hunter-gatherer activity may have continued intermittently on the site for around four thousand years. <1> Subsequently published as 'Rhum: Mesolithic and later sites at Kinloch, Excavations 1984-86' (1990). <2>