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...
Wildshawburn stone circle stone at dyke

Wildshaw Burn Stone Circle

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Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
Millhill of Wandel Excavation Report cover

Millhill of Wandel Excavation Report

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Download the Millhill of Wandel report  and adjunct survey of Hartside and Devonshire
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...

A progress report on latest dig at Daer Reservoir

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An update on the completion of the first of our sites at Daer. Extensive fieldwalking of an area of new forest that had been ploughed...
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
thumbnail of BAG_DAER_0314

Further archaeology work in Daer Reservoir – interim report

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

Mesolithic to Neolithic transition – have we got it?

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Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Site 110 plan

Daer Valley excavation – site 110

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Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. 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
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...

Wildshaw Burn Stone Circle and Black Mount Hill alignments to midwinter and midsummer solstices

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

Daer update – confused, you will be

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Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
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...

Winter Solstice from Daer sites

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