New Houses, Lower Muckovie, Inshes, Inverness Archaeological Evaluation Data Structure Report

An archaeological evaluation was carried out in advance of the construction of three houses at Lower Muckovie, Inshes, Inverness. The evaluation was required as the development site is located in an area deemed to have potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains. Ten trenches were excavated to cover 7% of the development site. The ground conditions were very poor, with all of the previous field drains destroyed and evidence for considerable reprofiling/infilling of the land during preceding decades. Only one sterile pit feature, considered of minimal significance, was identified. One possible artefact, a copper stake, was recovered from a redeposited soil containing mixed modern rubbish.