Howburn Excavation updates

A week in Biggar Archaeology – and what a week It all began when Tam was asked by a lady in Peebles if he wanted to collect four boxes of flints she had in her possession, they were arrow heads...

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 with them. However, even though we know there are lots more of these fantastic finds,...

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 final tally of probably five tanged points being found there, along with a large number...

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 his wife Sue found a nice end scraper in the same metre grid. Then Laura...

  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 is a scatter of flint and chert, the flint probably mostly being Upper Palaeolithic and...

 Weekend number three – several Paleo tools found The Houston family, struck flint on their first ever dig. But of course this is not just any old flint, it is the oldest in Scotland. A very nice end scraper and several...

 A great turnout for the Howburn Excavation Our first day at the Howburn excavation and we had a great response to our plea for volunteers. Both young and not so young turned up to dig. The finds for the day included: ...