Daer Valley Project Main Report
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Excavations and consolidation works at Covington Tower and Doocot, South Lanarkshire
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...
Daer Valley Excavation – Another new and exciting site
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Wildshaw Burn Stone Circle and Black Mount Hill alignments to midwinter and midsummer solstices
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Winter Solstice from Daer sites
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Daer update – confused, you will be
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Daer Excavation Update
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Some more legacy Daer Reports – pre 2010
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A progress report on latest dig at Daer Reservoir
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 in readiness for replanting revealed a number of concentrations of lithic and other finds. One...
Daer Valley
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...
Daer Valley Excavation – Two new reports about Daer
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Daer Update – six minutes of fame!
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Wildshaw Burn
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...
Daer Valley Penannular enclosure – site 111
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Daer Valley and Clydesdale Mesolithic Report
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Daer our next dig
And we're looking for help!
We've quickly leapt forward 20 miles and 5,000 years or so from Paleolithic Howburn to Mesolithic Daer. Our next Biggar! Dig is in the Daer Valley. Our clear felled forest walking has paid off with...
Digitised M74 Report from 1992
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...
Reservoirs 2021 – exceptionally low water levels
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...
Further archaeology work in Daer Reservoir – interim report
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Latest News
Survey of Kirkurd Churchyard
In the spring of 2023 the members of the Biggar Archaeology Group with the support of Peeblesshire Archaeological Society and Scottish Borders Council surveyed...
