Clydesdale Project

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Millhill of Wandel Excavation Report

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Download the Millhill of Wandel report  and adjunct survey of Hartside and Devonshire
Millhill of Wandel Trench 24, looking South. Trench 25 in background

Survey and excavation reports – Millhill of Wandel

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From 2019 until 2022 excavations were undertaken at Millhill of Wandel. This came about as a follow-up to observations taken from Wandel Mill and a subsequent survey. No records had been published of this site other than some aerial...
A unique pair of napkin rings

Camps Reservoir excavation and survey report from 1992

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A survey and partial excavation of a series of Bronze Age and later structures exposed by the lowering of the water level in Camps Reservoir was carried out in 1992 and 1994. In the first campaign of work an enclosed cremation...
Low water levels at Daer reservoir

Reservoirs 2021 – exceptionally low water levels

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Revisiting some of our past excavations sites recently found the reservoirs are particularly low this year. Some background information The four reservoirs are Talla, Fruid and Megget, all in Borders Region and Daer in South Lanarkshire. Various campaigns of work have...
David Fisher painting – three panels of Clydesdale through the ages

David Fisher – Artist (1946-2013), his Clydesdale legacy

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By Tam Ward David Fisher was born in Midsomer Norton in Somerset, he originally trained as a signwriter and decorator and gradually became a self employed artist. He was commissioned to paint pub signs all over England and produced a...
Mechanical digger and dumper truck working on the M74 project excavation

Digitised M74 Report from 1992

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The out of print report by Tam Ward on the survey work by the Biggar Archaeology Group as part of the M74 upgrade in Clydesdale, now South Lanarkshire, in 1990, it has now been digitised. Upper Clydesdale through the Ages...

Six Castles and a Bastle in Upper Clydesdale

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This report features a localised grouping of castle sites and a bastle house that are given as a guide to defensive sites dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries in Upper Clydesdale, South Lanarkshire. Map showing locations of sites...
Covington Tower Moat now filled in

Excavations and consolidation works at Covington Tower and Doocot, South Lanarkshire

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Covington Tower and doocot represent the best sites of their types in the Upper reaches of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire. The site is located at NS 975 400 and lies immediately on the west side of an...
Illustration of Glenochar Battle House and Fermtoun

Glenochar Bastle House and Fermtoun

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An account of the discovery, survey, consolidation, excavations and research of a 17th-century defensive farmhouse and buildings in Clydesdale, with supplementary contextual information. This Glenochar Bastle House and Fermtoun report replaces all previous works on the site, but much is...
Daer Reservoir

Daer Reservoir

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Daer Reservoir The Daer Reservoir supplies water to the central belt of Scotland and it was inaugurated by Her Majesty The Queen in 1956. It has never been empty since that time but its water level routinely falls in the...

Daer Valley

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The Daer Valley was initially visited in the search for bastle house sites, three were discovered; Wintercleuch, Smithwood and Kirkhope. The valley was re-visited for the M74 Project in 1990 and the area within the reservoir was also inspected in...
Clydesdale Surveying

Clydesdale Upland Survey

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Clydesdale Survey The upland surveys undertaken by the Group and by the writer in a commercial capacity for pre-aforestation surveys, principally in The Clyde and Tweed Valleys but also in numerous other locations of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, has...

Wildshaw Burn

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Wildshaw Burn Stone Circle The monument consists of 23 stones arranged in an almost perfect ellipse. Its long axis, 52m in length, is aligned NNE-SSW; the short axis is 42m long. The circle lies between the new M74 motorway and...

Bastle Houses and Sheep Buchts

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Bastle Houses and Sheep Buchts Coming from zero in terms of knowledge of these sites, we have now recorded bastles or possible bastles, countless sheep milking buchts and numerous shieling sites. The emerging scenario depicts tenant farmers, rearing sheep and...
Selection of Microliths from Daer Valley excavation

Daer Valley and Clydesdale Mesolithic Report

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Biggar Archaeology Group PDF Reports. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
View from Tinto Hill – Cairn

Latest Reports – Crossing the Clyde, On Tintock Tap, two reports on mesolithic Daer...

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Biggar Archaeology Group PDF Reports. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Coom settlement position in the landscape

17th Century Settlement of Coom partial excavation in

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Download – Partial Excavation of the 17th Century Settlement of Coom in the Daer Valley | 1.5MB | Tam Ward, BAG | Survey and excavation trenches produced evidence of a series of buildings, their floors and finds dating to the...
A ruinous 19th century shepherds cottage (Pl 3) lies beside the bastle remains and it is clear that the later house relied on the bastle for much if not all of its stonework, as may be seen especially by the dressed sand stone in the ruin, most especially window and door jamb stones, roof ridge stones, gun loops and even a fine mantelpiece

Glendorch Bastle House partial excavation in 1985-86

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Download – The partial excavation of Glendoroch Bastle House, near Crawfordjohn, South Lanarkshire | 1.5MB | 2015 | Tam Ward, BAG | Partial excavation of a previously unrecorded building showed it to belong to the Bastle House tradition of...
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Some new reports

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Biggar Archaeology Group PDF Reports. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk

Winter Solstice from Daer sites

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Biggar Archaeology Group PDF Reports. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk

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Kirkurd churchyard

Survey of Kirkurd Churchyard

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In the spring of 2023 the members of the Biggar Archaeology Group with the support of Peeblesshire Archaeological Society and Scottish Borders Council surveyed...