Dig deep to fund Mull excavation
Dates for this year’s dig at Lephin on Mull are September 10 to September 24 and volunteers are being invited to get hands-on – no experience necessary.
Dates for this year’s dig at Lephin on Mull are September 10 to September 24 and volunteers are being invited to get hands-on – no experience necessary.
A fortnight into the three-week dig next to the island’s St Moluag’s Church and excavation organisers say the expert team with help of volunteers has already achieved the main aim of the dig and that was to secure bone samples for analysis.
Archaeologists have finished work at Kilbride Chapel in Lerags Glen, ready for the restoration project’s next phase to begin.
Survey work included the team walking over the rocky ground to record finds and clues to the island’s farming past.
Helped by volunteers from Luing History Society, a team from the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (ACFA) are spending seven days on Torsa in the hope of discovering more about farming life there long ago.
Clues to Kildavie’s past are being uncovered by a team of archaeological students and volunteers.