Dighty Valley - Archaeology Data Service

version, of Southern English Neolithic mortuary enclosures. This
ditch also contained flints, with fragments of cremated bone.
Hut floors extend from within the palisade towards the cists,
and work is at present directed to establishing their relative dating.
Less than 100 yards E, an extensive area of crude iron slag of
low extraction rate, and further huts, awaits a later stage of the
'excavation.
Local information reports another cist in a field across the
road E. of the site, and another has been located a short way
upstream (see " Baranlongart ", above).
It is hoped to mount a further period of excavation at this
important site in 1964, and plans will be announced in the CBA
Calendar if this proves possible. In the meantime every help is
being given by the owner of the site, Sir William Lithgow, Bt., and
his farm and estate staff. Expert help and advice is being provided
by Mr and Mrs J. G. Scott, of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum,
Kelvingrove.
More than 200 Secondary pupils from local schools visited the
site during the summer, and some senior pupils gave most valuable
help with the excavations.
From Mrs Margaret Kay,
I-luii. Secretary of the North Argyll
KALURL, SHIAN, LOCH CRERAN Archaeological Society
NM/898414. In March a cairn on a peat-moss at Balure was
excavated.-The-cairn measured 36 ft. in diameter and was 2 ft.
high. North-east of the centre there was a disturbed area and here
the perimeter was more confused. Twelve feet NW of the centre
and at a depth of 2 ft. four small slabs, lying approximately 2 ft.
apart were exposed. The largest slab measured 19" x 12" x 2".
No central cist has been found. Further excavation may be impossible
since the base of the cairn is below the water-table. One
hundred and twelve yards NE of the cairn a 7 ft. ditch cut through
peat has reached the raised beach level. This would imply that the
small slabs may have been laid on a platform of stones originally
5 ft. high.
DUN FHEURAIN, GALLANACH, near OBAN
NM/284266. Two trial trenches have been dug in the midden
around the base of the rock. Within the first foot of earth were
found a bone head or whorl and a fragment of carved bone from a
Viking comb. Various animal bones and shells were found at all
levels and a boar's tusk at two and a half feet. At three feet carbon
and a few lumps of reddish-brown clay were found and excavation
was continued to four feet, through a sterile layer.