Images of the excavation site at Brora

Finds sessions

The first of two finds sessions was held in Brora Community Centre on Thursday 13th December 2007. It was led by archaeologists, Janet Hooper and Cathy Dagg, and was attended by 9 enthusiastic volunteers. The majority of the group had participated in the 2007 excavation and were keen to be involved in the post-excavation work. The finds are currently being stored at Brora, under the care of Clyne Heritage Society, and this was the first opportunity to lay out the whole assemblage. During the first finds sessions, each object was recorded in greater detail, described and measured. At a second session, held in January, the descriptions were completed and the pottery photographed.

The participants being given a short introduction at the Brora excavation finds day. A group of volunteers examining the brick and tile finds from the Brora excavation. A group of volunteers examining the brick and tile finds from the Brora excavation.
A short introduction at the start of the finds day. Examining the mass of brick and tile from Trench 4. Yet more brick and tile!
A group of volunteers observing archaeologist Cathy Dagg looking at a piece of brick through a spyglass to see the different inclusions. A volunteer looking at a piece of glass through a spyglass. A volunteer closely examining a sherd of glass retrieved from one of the many middens on the site.
Cathy observing the different inclusions within a piece of brick. Bill examining a sherd of glass through a magnifying glass. John closely examining one of the finds retrieved from the many middens on the site.
A group of volunteers carefully cleaning and recording some of the finds retrieved during the excavation at the site of the Brora salt works in 2007. A group of volunteers recording the bone, shell and pottery finds from the Brora excavation. A collection of pottery sherds retrieved during the Brora excavation.
Sorting of the mass of material from Trench 2. The piles have not yet reduced in size…. The pottery sherds laid out for comparison.
Redware, with a cream, green and brown spatterware glaze. This was the most distinctive pottery found in the area of the New Salt Works. Half of a redware pitcher, with a dark, shiny brown glaze, found resting on the floor surface of the Saltman’s House. Another sherd of redware, with slipped decoration.

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