Find Spot record 9527 - Habost, Ness

Historic Scotland asked GUARD to undertake the evaluation of the find pot of human bones near Habost, Ness, Lewis, as part of the Human Remains Call-off Contract.
Excavation focused on the findspots of several surface scatters of human bone. One trench was located at the point where a large portion of cranium had previously been discovered, which may have related to a stone cairn or setting. This trench measured 2.0m north-east to south west, by 1.5m nort-west to south-east. Excavation established that two groups of disarticulated bone were present which lay partially within the turfline and on clean yellow sand but outwith the area of the putative stone setting. The results of the excavation also suggest that the putative stone setting or cairn was probably natural.
A second trench was excavated, measuring 0.8m north-east to wouth-west by 0.9m north-west to wouth-east, further up slope focused on another surface scatter of bones. This also established that the bone was present partially within the turfline and sitting on clean yellow sand.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
Contractor: GUARD
MacGregor, G 2001
MacGregor, G 2001, 100 (DES)

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 2001, Discovery and Escavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41185.

Gavin MacGregor, GUARD, 2001, Habost, Ness, Lewis: Human Remains Call Off Contract (Unpublished document). SWE41058.