For You Lot Data - Farther Bear Witness Of Bronze Historic Current Cemetery At Scotland's Drumnadrochit

During site clearance for Drumnadrochit's novel aid housing site, AOC's archaeologists uncovered a tertiary cist, a rock slab-built grave (right), which contained an Early Bronze Age Beaker pot, dating to close 4,500-4,000 years ago. AOC has previously excavated 2 other cists at the site, as well as thence this represents some other important uncovering at Drumnadrochit’s Kilmore site.

The burial cist is the tertiary to live found inwards the expanse [Credit: AOC Archaeology]

At the fourth dimension of discovery, it was clear that the cist had already been disturbed. One of the side slabs had been broken as well as had collapsed into the soil-filled grave spell the capstone, or grave lid, was missing. The size of the grave indicates that it would hit got contained a crouched inhumation burial, which did non last within the acidic soil environment. Fragments of the Beaker pot last (below as well as bottom), enabling us to clearly translate the Bronze Age appointment of the cist, as well as to connect it to the other burials on the site. This increasingly indicates that the Drumnadrochit site contained a Bronze Age cemetery, with 3 cists as well as a 4th burial pit found during our monitoring work. All of the burial sites were located centrally along the slightly raised Earth within what would hit got been a broad apartment expanse betwixt the River Enrick as well as the River Coiltie on the border of Glenurquhart Bay. Due to the soil conditions, solely 1 of the graves contained human remains, a manlike mortal inhumation burial, spell 2 other Beaker pots hit got been recovered, 1 with a rock bracer, or archer’s wrist guard.

Work inwards some other expanse of the site revealed what nosotros believe was some other cist capstone as well as other prehistoric archaeology. Analysis indicates that the rock was an isolated capstone-like slab sitting within an early on soil layer, from which nosotros hit got provisional radiocarbon dating bear witness to propose that it represents a 14th century, or medieval, soil layer. It is possible that medieval farming activeness may live responsible for some of the impairment to the Bronze Age burials, as well as potentially consummate devastation of other cists that may hit got been here.

Beaker sherds [Credit: AOC Archaeology]

Further archaeological finds were found below the early on ploughsoil layer during a previous stage of run on behalf of Compass as well as Loch Ness Homes. Excavation revealed groups of pits dating to betwixt 3,700-3,500 BC, the Neolithic catamenia that precedes the Bronze Age. Almost all of the pits contained Neolithic pottery, burnt grain as well as hazelnut shells as well as rock tools. It is possible that the cloth was deliberately left within pits, potentially every bit an offering related to a belief organisation linked to the importance of the state as well as agriculture.

AOC Inverness' Operations Manager, Mary Peteranna, said, “I believe that unopen to 4,000 years ago, this landscape was already imbued with meaning. In the catamenia preceding this, the Neolithic ancestors were the commencement farmers becoming increasingly tied to a landscape where they were cultivating wheat as well as barley – as well as with that their beliefs were tied into the changing of the seasons, with the involve for wintertime to halt as well as summertime to begin. This was an of import transition from the to a greater extent than transitory lifestyle of hunter-gatherers. Later, inwards the Bronze Age, nosotros know that the communities of the Great Glen were edifice burial cairns inwards business with the wintertime solstice – every bit at the nearby Corrimony Cairns as well as Clava Cairns inwards Inverness. To hit got a cemetery built on this site sure enough was a deliberate alternative for the inhabitants of this business office of the Great Glen.”

Beaker with unproblematic incised geometric ornament discovered at the site inwards 2017
[Credit: AOC Archaeology]

The archaeological run is existence undertaken on behalf of the Glenurquhart Care Project as well as with the assistance of Compass Building as well as Construction. The Glenurquhart Care Project is a community-based charity established over xx years agone to render back upwards for the elderly as well as vulnerable inwards the communities of Glenurquhart as well as Strathglass.

Susan Clark, Director of Glenurquhart Care, said, “this cist was discovered during some enabling industrial plant to build 12 community houses for the elderly inwards this expanse as well as is an exciting pace inwards the evolution of the site. Funding for the structure of the houses has of late been granted past times SSE Highland Sustainable Communities Fund, the Wolfson Foundation as well as Scottish Government Rural Housing Fund. To permit the structure to commence, nosotros are continuing to enhance funds for the full build toll of £1.6m as well as promise to secure this during the summer.”

“The archaeological findings are exciting for the Drumnadrochit community– located inwards 1 of the most renowned landscapes inwards the Earth past times the shores of Loch Ness.”

Source: AOC Archaeology [July 18, 2018]


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