Foyers Campsite and Caravan Park South Loch Ness, Inverness-shire ARCHAEOLOGICAL WATCHING BRIEF National Grid Reference NH 4928 2104 Planning Reference 11/01029/FUL Authors Mary Peteranna, Lynn Fraser Site Code FOY13 Report No. 2013-15/FOY13 Client D & L Forbes Date 25-4-2013 OASIS No. rosscrom1-149008 Ryefield Tore Ross-shire IV6 7SB Scotland Email:
[email protected] Website: www.rossandcromarch.co.uk Mob: 07776 027306 Ph: 01463 811310 FOY13 – New caravan and camping site at Foyers, South Loch Ness: Archaeological watching brief CONTENTS List of Figures 2 List of Plates 2 Summary 4 1 Introduction 4 2 Aims and Objectives 4 3 Site Location 5 4 Archaeological and Historical Background 6 5 Methodology 5.1 Desk-based Assessment 7 5.2 Watching Brief 7 5.3 Photography and Site Recording 8 6 Results 6.1 Desk-Based Assessment 8 6.1.1 Cartographic Sources 8 6.1.2 Highland Historic Environment Record (HER) 10 6.2 Fieldwork 6.2.1 Watching Brief 12 6.2.2 Features 13 6.2.3 Sword 28 7 Discussion 28 8 Conclusions 30 9 References 31 Appendix 1 List of Features 32 Appendix 2 List of Plan and Section Drawings 36 Appendix 3 List of Samples 37 Appendix 4 List of Feature Levels 37 Appendix 5 List of Contexts 38 Appendix 6 List of Photographs 44 1 FOY13 – New caravan and camping site at Foyers, South Loch Ness: Archaeological watching brief LIST OF FIGURES 1 - Ordnance Survey map showing the Foyers caravan and camping site location 5 2 - Excerpt from Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland, showing Foirs and the military road 7 3 - Excerpt from Taylor and Skinner’s Survey 1776, showing Fyres 9 4 - Location plan of the archaeological watching brief and turf stripping, showing the spread of archaeological features 11 5 - Location plan of Features 1, 2, 3 and 5 13 6 - Location plan of Feature 4 and Features 6-9 14 7 - Location plan of Features 17-20 14 8 - Location plan of Features 21-23 15 9 - Location plan of Features 11, 12, 24 and 25 16 10 - Location plan of Features 13-16, 27 16 11 - Location plan of Feature 26 17 12 - Plan No.