Neolithic Arrows galore!
A week in Biggar Archaeology – and what a week
It all began when Tam was asked by a lady in Peebles if he wanted...
Earliest site in Scotland discovered
Unexpected and unique Upper Paleolithic finds recently discovered at Howburn Farm identifies this site as being the earliest in Scotland.
These finds have now been...
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...
Coring the valley floor – Elsrickle
Some of us became mud larks last Saturday at Elsrickle when with colleagues from Stirling University we cored down into the valley floor beside...
Mesolithic to Neolithic transition – have we got it?
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Daer Valley excavation – site 110
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Howburn Excavation Update Monday 20 July 2009
What a weekend! (our last, but one)...
Tang points, scrapers, cores and lots more coming out the ground so fast we could hardly keep up...
Daer update – confused, you will be
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Radiocarbon Dates in 2008
Radiocarbon dates have now been received for a number of projects.
Fruid Reservoir
The Fruid Reservoir dates are 3100±35BP and 3150±35BP. This first of these was...
Daer Update – six minutes of fame!
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Update on latest stone setting site – Daer
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Daer excatation update
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
Howburn Excavation Update Monday 13 July 2009
We are down to our final few weeks and…
The progress being made is fantastic, work at the original Trench is now complete with the...
Post medieval site of Logan
We are now able to show that settlements from c1600 to c1750 were becoming more materialistic than previously. Consumption of tobacco and wine is...
Daer Excavation Update
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
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!...
Howburn Excavation Update 7 June 2009
First 100 metres completed
We have now completed 125 square metres beside the road, and have completed the first full 100metre block. The general picture...
Howburn Excavation Update 17 May 2009
Weekend number three – several Paleo tools found
The Houston family, struck flint on their first ever dig. But of course this is not just...
Howburn Excavation Update 28 June 2009
The dig is proving to be a great success; with a further three tanged points being recovered.
First was by Mike Thornley last weekend, and...