EAB2147 - Excavation 2013 - CAOCHANAN RUADHA

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Location

Grid reference
Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	Crathie and Braemar
Authority	Aberdeenshire

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Technique(s)

EXCAVATION

Organisation

University College Dublin

Date

2013

Description

Trial excavations aimed to explore anomalies identified by earlier geophysical survey and establish the extent of the flint scatter. Only a very small number of artefacts were recovered: ten flints and a small number of possible worked quartz. The flint artefacts were characteristic of the Late Mesolithic Director: UCD Auspices: NTS Fund: NTS

Sources/Archives (1)

--- SAB5483 Bibliographic reference: ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND. 2014. DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 14, 2013. 17-18.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

MAB47923 CAOCHANAN RUADHA (Find Spot)

Record last edited

Jun 17 2026 2:35PM

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