Ulva Cave
Also known as A’Chrannag
Excavation
C. Bonsall, 1987, 1990-91.
Curation
?
Burials
MNI: 1 (juvenile).
Finds
Early Neolithic pottery, flint and pitchstone artefacts, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
4895 bp (PSUAMS-5771) on human bone; 5750 bp (OxA-3738) on antler; 4990 bp (GU-2707) on charcoal.
External References
Bibliography
Bergman, M. (2024). The Ulva Cave Shell Midden: Investigating the Mollusc Remains from a Mesolithic Site in the Inner Hebrides. MA Dissertation, University of Edinburgh.
Bonsall, C., Sutherland, D.G. & Lawson, T.J. (1988) Ulva Cave, 1987. Archaeological Journal 145: 3–.
Bonsall, C., Sutherland, D.G. & Lawson, T.J. (1989) Ulva Cave and the early settlement of Northern Britain. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 16 (3): 109-111.
Bonsall, C., Sutherland, D.G. & Lawson, T.J. (1991) Excavations in Ulva Cave, western Scotland 1987: a preliminary report. Mesolithic Miscellany 12: 18-23.
Bonsall, C. et al. (1992) Excavations in Ulva Cave, western Scotland 1989: a preliminary report. Mesolithic Miscellany 13: 7-13.
Hedges, R.E.M. et al. (1993) Radiocarbon dates from from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 17. Archaeometry 35: 305-326.
Patterson, N. et al. (2021) Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature 601: 588-594.
Pickard, C. & Bonsall, C. (2009). Some observations on the Mesolithic crustacean assemblage from Ulva Cave, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, in J.M. Burdukiewicz, K. Cyrek, P. Dyczek and K. Szymczak (eds), Understanding the Past: Papers Offered to Stefan K. Kozlowski, pp. 305-313. Warsaw: University of Warsaw.
Russel, N., Bonsall, C. and Sutherland, D. (1995). The exploitation of marine molluscs in the Mesolithic of Western Scotland: Evidence from Ulva Cave, Inner Hebrides’, in A. Fisher (ed), Man and sea in the Mesolithic; coastal settlement above and below present sea level, 273-288. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Article Author Graham Mullan