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  • Watching brief: Balephuil

    Ben Hynish Service Reservoir Access Track
    Desk-based assessment and walkover survey
    Steven Birch – West Coast Archaeological Services
    NL 97041 40826 to NL 96953 40594 An archaeological desk-
    based assessment and walkover survey was carried out, from 15
    August to 9 September 2021, in advance of the construction of
    a new access track for the Ben Hynish Service Reservoir, on the
    island of Tiree. The work was undertaken to assess the nature and
    extent of any archaeological sites likely to be affected within the
    areas outlined for the proposed access track in order to inform
    recommendations for the protection and management of any sites
    recovered.
    The desk-based assessment and investigation of aerial imagery
    identified a number of archaeological sites in close proximity to the
    proposed works, while the walkover survey confirmed the presence
    of these sites and identified one new site. The sites included stone
    dykes, field clearance cairns, the stone foundations of a possible
    structure, and a number of features most likely associated with
    the construction of the service reservoir. The structures date
    to the post-medieval period and relate to settlement on the NE
    slopes of Ben Hynish and the construction of the service reservoir.
    Mitigation measures have been proposed to safeguard the sites
    during the development works.
    Archive: West of Scotland Archaeology Service HER and NRHE
    Funder: Scottish Water
    (Discovery and Excavation Scotland (2021), p. 46)
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  • John Sands paper on Tiree 1882


    Sands, J (1882) Notes on the Antiquities of the Island of Tiree. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 16, pp. 459–463.

    Excavations Cladh Beag, Dùnan Nighean, Dùn nan Cleite
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  • Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project report 2005: DES report

    Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project S Mithen, A Pirie

    Fieldwalking S Smith

    The Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project is undertaking research on Tiree, Coll and NW Mull primarily to locate and hopefully excavate sites of the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic period. Two weeks have been spent on Tiree surveying areas of dune, ditches, river banks and other exposed areas for chipped stone scatters, along with cataloguing artefact collections in the Tiree Museum, An Iodhlann. The following is a list of new artefact scatters located by the project in Tiree:
    Balephuil:
    NL 94980 40815 In base of large dune blow-out; 176 pieces of worked flint and quartz from surface of storm beach at c 6m OD. Both platform and bipolar technology present: 112 flakes, 2 blades, 32 chips/chunks, 21 cores and 9 retouched artefacts.
    NL 94246 41119 Scatter of pottery, bone, pebbles and shell in dune blow-out part way up Beinn Ceann a’Mhara at 31.4m OD.
    NL 94328 40950 Eroded section face of dune at 9.3m OD, with exposed midden horizon which has eroded onto footpath adjacent to dune. Bone, shell and pottery present, indicating a Bronze Age date. 65 pieces of chipped stone: 36 flakes, 2 blades, 13 chips/chunks, 8 cores and 6 retouched artefacts.
    NL 95155 40708 Three struck flints within scatter of beach pebbles exposed in dune blow-out.
    NL 94665 41589 Extensive scatter of fire-cracked stone, worked stone, flint, pottery, shell and ironworking slag within massive dune blow-out, oriented ESE–WNW at 12m OD.
    NL 94165 41267 Series of interleaved midden deposits, blown sand and dark soil, containing prehistoric pottery; adjacent to natural spring in hillside.
    Kilkenneth:
    NL 93763 44340 Scatter of pebbles, worked flint, shells and bone. Nine pieces of chipped stone were collected: none are diagnostic as to period.
    Hynish:
    NL 97743 38831 Ten pieces of worked flint from area of sand within dunefield: a core/scraper, a core, an irregular bladelet and seven flakes.
    NL 97732 38763 Scatter of pottery and shell within sand to immediate S of above site. One flint flake was recovered.
    NL 97547 38697 Three flint flakes and a quartz chip from base of rock outcrop.
    Salum:
    NM 06666 48839 Exposed section of midden and ?wall in face of dune cliff, from which pottery and worked flint is eroding.
    Balevullin:
    NL 92871 45908 Three flint flakes and iron slag from wheel rut.
    Sponsors: HS, British Academy, Argyll Estates.

    Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2005, p. 22
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