MHG37367 - Lithic Scatter - Port Earlish

Summary

An open air lithic scatter site was investigated by the Scotland's First Settlers Project.

Type and Period (1)

LITHIC SCATTER (Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 8000 BC? to 551 BC?)

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NG56SW 22 5206 6260
The following sites were recorded between October 1999 and May 2000 as part of the Scotland's First Settlers Project (DES 1999, 49-50):
NG 5206 6260 Port Earlish 1 Lithic scatter.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
K Hardy and C Wickham-Jones 2000

A lithic scatter was found eroding out of the side of a burn during the Scotland's First Settler's Project in 2000. There were six lithic finds, all of chalcedonic silica with the exception of one piece of baked mudstone. Most of the assemblage was debitage but there is one regular flake and a single blade. The lithics indicate activity in prehistory, but it is not possible to date a small assemblage like this in more detail. <1>

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<1> SHG24512 Text/Publication/Monograph: Hardy, K and Wickham-Jones, C (eds). 2007. Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: the work of the Scotland's First Settlers project 1998-2004, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 31. Scottish Archaeological Internet Report. 31. Digital. Section 2.2.50, SFS 94.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 5205 6260 (30m by 30m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG56SW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	KILMUIR

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External Links (2)

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-310-1/dissemination/pdf/sair31.pdf (Link to published Scottish Archaeological Internet Report 31)
https://canmore.org.uk/site/192774 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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