EHG5185 - Watching Brief - Inverness College Campus, Inverness

A watching brief was undertaken by ORCA in 2018 during the machine excavation of a series of geo-technical test-pits at Inverness College campus. The majority of the geo-technical pits excavated across the site exhibited a fairly consistent stratigraphic sequence of improved topsoil directly overlying undisturbed natural deposits. A sub-soil layer was identified in one test-pit, and a deposit of charcoal was positively identified in another test-pit. This deposit of charcoal may also have been exposed in a further test-pit. The presence of these deposits was consistent with the presence of a suite of archaeological features, dating to the prehistoric period, identified across the site during earlier phases of intrusive archaeological investigations. <1>