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News from Biggar Archaeology –Archaeology in the Scottish Borders
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Brownsbank Farm 3rd Interim Report now available for download. Interim report for Brownsbanbk Farm part of the Pre-history North of Biggar Project. More. A few more reports on the work of BAG. A new report on Burnt Mounds, Unenclosed Platform Settlements and information on burnt stone activity in the river Clyde and Tweed valleys of South Lanarkshire and Peebleshire. Burnt Mounds and Unenclosed Platform Settlement Report. Upper Tweed project reports for Logan and Woodend. Wildshaw Burn Stone Circle Report.
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Daer Valley excavation – site 110
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Back to News page. Excavation Site 110 more details. The site lies of the southern flank of Coom Rig and is at the base of a break of slope up hill and just above a less acute break of slope downhill, however the site itself lies on natural sloping ground of about 0.5m. Upon discovery the site was seen as boulders and smaller stones disturbed across three furrows, initially the stones were thought to be from small cairns. Eight post-holes mark a circular enclosure approximately six metres in diameter....
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Biggar Archaeology News update for Daer Valley exc
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Back to News page. Daer - confused you will be! Site 107 a stone pavement aligned East/West along the long axis. We've hade a number of new, if confusing, sites from Daer over the past couple of months that have proved exciting. Two possible separate settings within the group were evident, the lower one at the East end measured 2.8m by 2.0m, forming an oval shape, and this appeared to be bounded by perimeter boulders with the central area being infilled. Between the two possible settings the rest of the ...
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Daer Valley Site 111 Update
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Back to News page. Site 111 Update and photography. It’s now some time since we last updated the story of the Daer Project. Site No 111 has now been photographed by kite. Click image for larger version. The photos were taken by John and Rosie Wells and Jim Knowles ( their website. We believe we can rule out habitation and funerary purposes, and the strong belief is that they are something to do with mortuary practices. We are currently pursuing grant funding from the nearby Wind farm grants scheme in...
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Daer Valley Penannular enclosure
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Back to News page. Site 111 Penannular Enclosure. Latest provisional information on site 111 penannular enclosure. Random find for sunday a 'hour glass' perforated amulet. Weekend updated two nice post holes with packing stones were found on Sunday. They were found in the internal area, with no finds these two featured are helpful in deciding what this site could have been for example we might have two mortuary enclosures with possible excarnation platforms inside. Pre-history North of Biggar.
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Biggar Archaeology Group's current projects
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The Biggar Archaeology Group has undertaken the task of investigating the archaeology, from earliest times, of an area of approximately 1000 sq. km that lies mainly to the south and east of Biggar. Consisting largely of uplands in the south, the area is dissected by the valleys of the rivers Clyde and Tweed, the east-west valley the so-called ‘Biggar Gap’ extending from Broughton to a little east of Biggar, that connects them and the broad east-west valley through Biggar itself. The Daer Valley Surveys.
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Biggar Archaeology News – April update on Daer excavation
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Back to News page. View towards new windfarm from our latest sites. We've now completed a few more sites and a new one; no. 104 was only discovered last weekend and we have already excavated 9 square metres of it. Initial thinking is that this site is Neolithic judging by the size of the flint; however we have now found eight microliths from the same area, so maybe it's another mixed Mesolithic and Neolithic like the nearby Site 100. Faceted haematite click for larger view. Pre-history North of Biggar.
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Daer Valley excavation – site 110
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Back to News page. Daer Update six minutes of fame! Excavating the furrows to test the site. On the 6th August the BBC TV programme Digging for Britain series spent a day with us at Daer. Their theme is the Stone Age and of course we were able to offer them a magnificent opportunity to film a Mesolithic site being excavated. Stripping out the baulk between furrows. Site 114 also produced ‘hot spots’ of lithic concentrations like several other sites on the project, recording lithic to one square metre gri...
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Archaeologist of the Year 2011. Microliths Abound Daer Project 2010 November Update. Mesolithic to Neolithic transition Daer Project 2010 October Update. Pre-history North of Biggar. Bastle Houses and Sheep Buchts. Sediment Coring Howburn 2010. Sediment Core Analysis 1 Howburn 2010. Sediment Core Analysis 2 Howburn 2010. A Talk About BAG. Glenochar Bastle House and Ferm Toun. Daer Valley excavation update for August. Cup and ring marked stone discovered. Sediment Coring further analysis. News Item - Logan.
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Daer Valley Excavation – Two new reports about Daer
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Back to News page. Two new reports available for the Daer project. Here's the latest reports for the Daer projects the first is an update to our interim report by Tam and the second is a contribution on lithics from Ian. Daer First Results Tam Ward. Daer Lithics Report Ian Paterson, BAG Member. Fliint is present at Daer in almost all the metre squares excavated mostly in small numbers while only rare specimens of pitchstone have been recovered. Pre-history North of Biggar. The Upper Tweed Project.