Latest News
Well we have yet another (now the third) stone setting at
Daer and for the next month or so this and another stone site at the other
side of the valley will be our priorities for the coming weekends. We'll
update here on our news page and on Facebook
and twitter.
More historic reports for you to download – Cursing of the Border Rievers in old Scots "I CURSE thair heid and all the haris of thair heid;…" part of the Bastle Houses Research Project and a look back at 2001 and Fieldwalking and Excavations at Cornhill Farm.
Mesolithic Chert Quarry at Burnetland Farm
– 2005
07 February 2012
This report is all about the excavation of a Mesolithic chert Quarry at Burnetland Farm undertaken in 2005 – 2006 and is part of the Biggar Gap Project. It is the largest example of a group of quarry pits disposed across a steep hill slope.
Site 111 – from the air
07 February 2012
It’s now some time since we last updated the story of the Daer Project. Site No 111 has now been photographed by kite.
Daer Valley Excavation – Site 111
06 November 2011
Two new reports for Daer
09 October 2011
to the previous Daer interim report and
a report by Ian Paterson on the lithics recovered
so far from some of the Daer site
Previous News Items
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| 05-09-2011 | |
| 19-08-2011 | |
| 10-08-11 | |
| 08-07-2011 | |
| 27-04-11 | |
| 27-04-2011 | |
| 31-10-2010 | |
| 30-11-2010 | |
| 31-10-2010 | |
| 19-08-2010 | |
| 17-08-2010 | |
| 08-08-2010 | |
| 22-07-2010 | |
| 25-06-2010 | |
| 03-06-2010 | |
| 16-04-2010 | |
| 20-03-2010 | |
| 03-03-2010 | |
| 07-02-2010 | |
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