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The Giant's Grave: archaeological research techniques

Islay Heritage is exploring the appearance of the Neolithic on Islay by studying one of the first Neolithic burial tombs on the island: Slochd Measach, otherwise known as the Giant’s Grave. This Neolithic chambered cairn is located in the forestry plantation between Nerabus and the summit of Beinn Tart a’Mhill, and is currently undergoing excavation by the University of Reading in collaboration with Islay Heritage. Several Neolithic burial tombs are known on Islay. They have rectangular shaped chambers constructed from slabs of stone, and would have been surrounded and covered by a cairn made from stones – we call these tombs chambered cairns. The Giant’s Grave appears to have been the largest Neolithic Chambered Cairn on the island. In 2015, geophysical surveying techniques and small-scale test excavations were used to begin exploring the burial tomb. Further archaeological excavations were carried out in late August 2016, by Prof. Steven Mithen, Dr Darko Maričević and a team of archaeologists and students from the Universities of Reading and Bournemouth.