Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave), Strath, Highland

NGR: NG 5943 1971

NMR: NG51NE 83

Canmore: 273776

SCD: 898

Excavation: UCLSS, 1972; GSG, 2002-2010.

Curation: National Museum of Scotland.

Burials: MNI: 4+

Finds: Socketed iron axe, worked antler and bone, ?Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery, animal bones.

Date: Iron Age (1)

¹⁴C: 1965 bp (SUERC-14945) 1890 bp (SUERC-14946) 1867 bp (SUERC-66372) 1884 bp (SUERC-66371) on human bone.

Bibliography:

Birch, S. (2002) Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave): deposits of bone breccia and anthropological indicators from a limestone cave on the Island of Skye. GSG Bulletin 1 (3): 12-27.

Birch, S.A., Mackenzie, J.T. & Cruickshanks, G. (2018) Footsteps in the Dark: Ritual, Memory and Identity at the High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye. Oxford, Oxbow.

Birch, S. (2013) Strath, High Pasture Cave and Environs Project, Post-excavation analysis, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 13: 116.

Birch, S. & Wildgoose M. (2004) 'Uamh an ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave). Skye. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 5: 80.

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Dulias, K., Birch, S., Wilson, J.F. et al. (2019) Maternal relationships within an Iron Age burial at the High Pasture Cave, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Science 110>: 104978.