An archaeological watching brief and excavation was undertaken during the final phase of topsoil stripping for new housing at Kilmore Farm Drumnadrochit. Archaeological monitoring and subsequent excavation work was carried out in May 2023 and between July and September 2023. The clearance of topsoil material revealed a variety of mostly prehistoric archaeological features. One cist burial and two possible cremation burial pits form part of the Bronze Age cemetery previously identified on the site during earlier phases of fieldwork. While the cist had suffered from modern damage and had possibly been robbed out, one of the two cremation burial pits contained a substantial amount of cremated bone. Other significant features included a palisade-enclosed roundhouse, another post-built structure, part of a large curvilinear ditch and probable Neolithic pits that contained sherds of prehistoric pottery from multiple vessels and carbonised nutshell. The locations of most of the archaeological features were concentrated on top of rises in the natural topography, which were dispersed between channels of alluvial sediment. The ground conditions were challenging for archaeological visibility, indicating that over millennia the site had suffered considerable changes due to natural events, possibly large-scale flooding.
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