Excavations at Castlehill of Strachan, 1980-1

Peter Yeoman, W. E. Boyd, Holly B. Duncan, Alastair M. D. Gemmell, G. W. Hodgson, P. D. Hulme, Hilary Murray, J Charles Murray, Jennifer Shirriffs, Grant G. Simpson,

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland · 1985 · 11 citations · 13 references

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A typical northern motte had a timber hall on the summit, two phases of palisade, surrounding ditch and approach causeway. The 13th century landscape was reconstructed using geomorphology and air photography. Coins, pottery of c 1250 to early 14th. Three furnaces/ovens were set on reused millstones. Metalwork, animal bones, pottery, palaeobotany.

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