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...

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...

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...

  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...

 Weekend number three – several Paleo tools found The Houston family, struck flint on their first ever dig. But of course this is not just...

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...

 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....