Monument record 382 - GRESS, LEWIS

NB44SE 9 491 415.

Re-alignment of the Back-Tolsta road, to the north of Gress River, resulted in the exposure of the capstones of a well preserved souterrain. On examination this proved to have a complex plan with two main passages merging into one. There was a maximum 10m exposure of the longest passage, and all three ends were blocked by sterile sand which had come in through the roof. Animal bone with unambiguous signs of butchering was present covering the capstones was a soil layer c. 0.25m thick containing bone, shell, pottery and small stones.
M Ponting, M Macrae and A Graham 1983; N Sharples 1983.

'The monument...comprises the remains of a souterrain, an Iron Age storehouse, situated beneath the roadside verge between the old and new courses of the B895 public road immediately to the E of Gress Cemetery. The area to be scheduled comprises the NW portion of the grassed area between the old and new courses of the road, and measures a maximum of 70m NE-SW by 12.5.m NW-SE.'
HS Scheduling Document 5 October 1993.

M, M and A Ponting, MacRae and, 1983b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 39 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14590.

N Sharples, 1983b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 80-1 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14591.