| Title: |
Prehistoric and Medieval Activity at Grantown Road, Forres, Morayshire |
| Authors: |
Dunbar, Lindsay; Dunne, Julie B; Evershed, Richard P; Engl, Rob; Gillard, Toby; Haggarty, George; Howard, Simon; McLaren, Dawn; MacSween, Ann; Morrison, Andrew; Robertson, Jackaline; Roy, Mike |
| Source: |
Dunbar, L, Dunne, J B, Evershed, R P, Engl, R, Gillard, T, Haggarty, G, Howard, S, McLaren, D, MacSween, A, Morrison, A, Robertson, J & Roy, M 2025, 'Prehistoric and Medieval Activity at Grantown Road, Forres, Morayshire', Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, vol. 110. https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2025.110.1-50 |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
University of Bristol: Bristol Reserach |
| Description: |
Archaeological excavations conducted in 2017 at Grantown Road, Forres form the final phase of works on a residential development that began in 2002. The earlier works examined an area of more than 70ha and confirmed the presence of an extensive Iron Age settlement represented by ring-ditch, ring-groove, and post-ring structures, in association with four-post structures, a souterrain, and metalworking furnaces. The 2017 works (Canmore ID 320363), reported here, have expanded the record of prehistoric and medieval settlement in the area and revealed that a previously recorded cropmark site represented an Iron Age enclosure with a single post-ring roundhouse. Also identified in the present works were an Early Neolithic post-ring structure and a series of pits dating from the Neolithic to the medieval periods with artefact assemblages of pottery, lithics, and stone tools, including a rare fragment of a locally made mortar dated to the 13th century ad. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2056-7421 |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/hdl/https://hdl.handle.net/1983/99bd1ff8-dd67-4157-80b9-799fbb38ac25 |
| DOI: |
10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2025.110.1-50 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/1983/99bd1ff8-dd67-4157-80b9-799fbb38ac25; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/99bd1ff8-dd67-4157-80b9-799fbb38ac25; https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2025.110.1-50 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.A6C51F7C |
| Database: |
BASE |