PDF Archive
- Current Archaeology Projects
- Pre-history North of Biggar Project Reports
- Pre-History
– Howburn 2010 |
2010 | 2MB | Tam Ward, BAG | The discovery and excavation of a
Late Upper Palaeolithic site in Scotland and the field walking assemblages
of multi prehistoric periods, and all from the same location at
Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- Corse Law Cairns |
2005 | 504KB | This report describes the results of survey and
excavation of three small cairns, which are part of a larer group
at Corse Law.
- Braehead Village Survey Report
| 2005 | 1.3MB | A survey of lime, ironstone and rock quaries with
associates clamp kilns, as well as a historical review of Braehead
Village.
- Weston
Farm Excavations - Interim Report | Dec
2005 | 2.9MB - Information on further excavations at Weston Farm,
revealing an extensive area of Mesolithic activity, involving the
production of chert and flint microliths.
- Netherhangingshaw | 2005 | 541KB | Spring 2003,
Fieldwork and excavations on a hill-top near Netherhangingshaw
farm produced a significant Early Pre-historic settlement.
- The Upper Tweed Project
Reports
- Woodend |Jan
2008 | size 964KB - Partial excavation of a previously investigated
cairn revealed the two cists already recorded and a rare example
of rock art in the Borders Region, details of the construction
of the cairn were also uncovered.
- Megget
Reservoir Survey | 2005 | 347KB | A part survey of the
Megget Valley after the discovery of
pre-historic sites within the reservoir during a period of low
water level in 2004.
- Megget Reservoir | June 2004 | 2.31MB | The outcome
of an inspection of the shorelines within Megget Reservoir
in June 2004. Sites included cairns, burnt mounds, circular stone
features and other more ambiguous sites.
- Megget Excavations – Interim Report | 2004 |
2.87MB | The excavations of features and enclosures recently discovered
has shown the area to have been occupied during the Late Neolithic
and probably the Bronze Age.
- Tweed – Survey | 2004
| 2.27MB | The latest phase of survey of the Upper Tweed valley
to conjoin with the Clydedale Survey, Broughton Heights and Manor
Valley.
- Clydesdale Project related reports
- Daer First
Results 2011 | September 2011 | Tam Ward, BAG |1.3KB| We
have been working flat out for over a year to salvage as much
as possible from the Coom Rig site in Daer valley, where
the forestry ploughing revealed an incredible and hitherto unknown
archaeological landscape. This reports explains the first results.
- Daer Lithics 2011 |
September 2011 | Ian Paterson | 729KB| Of the lithic materials
recovered in the Daer excavation, chert is by
far the most abundant - forming some 96% of the total recovered
from the 4 most prolific sites. This report discusses chert and
the lithic finds from Daer.
- Fieldwalking
of forestry areas in Daer Valley 2010 – Interim Report |
Nov 2010 |Tam Ward, BAG |972KB |Inspection of clear felled and
newly ploughed forestry areas in the Daer Valley has produced
evidence of the Mesolithic, Early Neolithic and Bronze Age periods,
principally by lithic scatters for the former and burnt mounds/deposits
and small cairns for the latter. Evidence in the form of Early
Neolithic carinated bowl pottery, leaf arrow heads and pitchstone
found in association with microliths and Mesolithic debitage,
point to the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition.
- Daer Valley Site 84 - Mesolithic |
Jan 2005 | 1.6MB | The discovery and excavation of a Mesolithic
Site in the Dar Valley.
- Daer Valley Site 85 - Mesolithic |Dec
2004 | 1.3MB | This report describes the discovery and excavation
of a further Mesolithic site in the Dar Valley.
- Special Reports
- Tobacco Pipe
Report | January
2011 | Written by: Dennis Gallagher. Images & Design: BAG |
1.2MB - Study of the tobacco pipes from Biggar Archaeology Group's
Projects 1981 – 2010
- Mesolithic of
South
Lanarkshire |November 2010| Tam Ward, BAG | 849KB - The recently
discovered Mesolithic Sites of South Lanarkshire in South Central
Scotland, and their context in Southern Scotland
- Biggar Pitchstone
Report |May 2008 | 569KB -
General characterisations of Biggar pitchstone artifacts, and discussion
of Biggar's role in the distribution of pitchstone across Neolithic
Britain.
- Glenochar and Smithwood
Bastle House Bottle Report |
April 2006 | Robin Murdoch | 2.6MB | The collections of glass, mostly
bottle glass but also including window fragments and glass beads
from the bastle houses of Glenochar and Smithwood.
