EHG5990 - Graveyard and walkover surveys - Isle Maree, Loch Maree

A survey of the graveyard and wider area on Isle Maree in Loch Maree was undertaken by menbers of the North of Scotland Archaeological Society in 2 days in April 2000. The project intended to produce an accurate plan of the central enclosure and gravemarkers and to identify and record any other visible features elsewhere on the island. A greater understanding of the remains on Isle Maree could then be contextualised within the wider religious history of Wester Ross. The objectives of the project were to: to take details of the grave markers and any inscriptions, also to photograph them; o produce a scale plan of the graveyard, including the location of all the gravemarkers and features contained within the central enclosure; o produce a scale drawing of the three remaining elements of the votive tree and its immediate vicinity, on which the approximate position of the main depositions of coins will be indicated and to identify any previously unrecorded features of possible archaeological significance on the island. It was also hoped to be able to prospect for traces of landing places, etc. on the north and south shores opposite the island but this objective was unfinished and will be subject to later reporting. At the end of the two days it was recognised that some of the details were incomplete and it was always the intention to make a return visit but sadly this never happened. Some information therefore, notably on a small group of grave markers in the south part of the burial enclosure, is incomplete. The report is based on a draft written by J Hooper in 2016, it was compiled in 2022 by A Coombs and Meryl Marshall. <1>