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A Mesolithic experience: Excavations at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay

In January 2009, pigs snuffling in the bracken on east coast of the Isle of Islay, western Scotland, turned up some small pieces of flint on a small terrace known as Rubha Port an t-Seilich (RPAS). Investigations in 2010 and 2013, followed by excavations between 2017 and 2023 have shown RPAS to be one of the best-preserved and most frequented Mesolithic sites in the UK, with activity likely starting in the Late Glacial and continuing for 5000 years until the arrival of the Neolithic. It is also one of the most beautifully located, enabling one to see much of the wildlife also seen and sometimes exploited by the Mesolithic people. In my talk I will recount those excavations and explain how their finds are providing insights into Mesolithic lifestyles and how they changed over time. What was the attraction of that specific location? How does its campsite fit into the mobile settlement pattern of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in western Scotland? What drove the changes in technology that we find through the sequence of excavated deposits?