<< Other Photo Pages >> An Corran - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Scotland in Isle of Skye
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Multi-periodSite Name: An CorranCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Skye Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Map Ref: NG49106860
Latitude: 57.637255N Longitude: 6.205424W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Shell Midden and lithics quarry in Isle of Skye. An Corran (at the southern end of Staffin Bay) is perhaps the oldest human site on Skye, being Mesolithic, before the development of agriculture or long term settlement. It has an apparent link to other early sites around the Inner Sound.
It is at the site of a former rock overhang above the Staffin beach, the overhang was destroyed by the roads department, without adequate field investigation or dating. Research by indicated hearths, flints, animal and human bone, arrowheads, a midden (ancient rubbish heap).
Source: Amanda Detweiler's Research Project (archive link) on Megalithic and Mesolithic Sites, Oxford College of Emory University
See also: History Scotland Magazine: Scotlands First Settlers (archive link).
A project to investigate the earliest settlement of west-coast Scotland, K Hardy & Caroline Wickham-Jones
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