SHG24190 - Land South of Jubilee Drive, Tain, Easter Ross: Formation of 28 Service Plots: Phase 2 - Archaeological Trial Trenching

Type	Text/Report/Fieldwork Report
Title	Land South of Jubilee Drive, Tain, Easter Ross: Formation of 28 Service Plots: Phase 2 - Archaeological Trial Trenching
Author/Originator	Dagg, C
Date/Year	04/2009
Organisation	Unaffiliated

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Trench 2. Subsoil surface partially exposed, showing narrow lines of plough marks and thicker line of land drain with small section of clay drain exposed . From SW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31845 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Subsoil surface partially exposed, showing narrow lines of plough marks and thicker line of land drain . From S . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31844 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 1. Subsoil surface with parallel lines of plough marks and wider line of land drain . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31843 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 1. Subsoil surface with parallel lines of plough marks and wider line of land drain . From NE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31842 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 1. Subsoil surface with parallel lines of plough marks and wider line of land drain . From SW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31841 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench general . View across site showing constructed access roads and services . From S . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31840 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench general . View across site showing compacted surface of redeposited subsoil and construction detritus . From WSW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31839 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench general . View across site to farm complex of St Vincent, in trees, with the Hill of Tain on horizon . From E . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31838 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 5. Inverted U clay drain segments in topsoil in NE trench section . From SW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31837 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 4. Plough marks crossing trench L-R and truncated shallow linear feature curving in from right trench edge . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31836 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 4. Plough marks crossing trench L-R and truncated shallow linear feature curving in from right trench edge . From NW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31835 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 3. Clay drain, left, and dark deposit of former watercourse, foreground . From SW . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31834 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Patch of charcoal rich material on subsoil surface . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31833 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Patch of charcoal rich material on subsoil surface . From W . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31832 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Drain 1, clay U-shaped segment removed . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31831 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Drain 1, clay U-shaped segment removed . From E . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31830 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench 2. Drain 1, excavated to reveal clay segments . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31829 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Trench general . View over site to NW. Over drystone dyke is Jubilee Drive Phase 1 development . From SE . © Catherine Dagg. id: 31828 (click to view a larger version of this image)

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SHG24190_JubileeDriveTain.pdf — Fieldwork report © Catherine Dagg. id: 117963 (click to open this file in a new window)

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Trial excavations at Jubilee Drive, Tain

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