Excavation Reports

Excavation Reports

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Millhill of Wandel Excavation Report

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Download the Millhill of Wandel report  and adjunct survey of Hartside and Devonshire
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 a subsequent survey. No records had been published of this site other than some aerial...
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 was carried out in 1992 and 1994. In the first campaign of work an enclosed cremation...
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Camps Reservoir Excavation and Survey Report 1992-1994

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Download the Camps Reservoir Survey and Excavation Report 1992 & 1994
Report on Lime clamp kiln at Glencotho

Lime clamp kiln at Glencotho excavation 2015

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Excavation of a lime clamp kiln at Glencotho, Peeblesshire, Scottish Borders. BAG Lime kiln Report
Coom settlement position in the landscape

17th Century Settlement of Coom partial excavation in

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Download – Partial Excavation of the 17th Century Settlement of Coom in the Daer Valley | 1.5MB | Tam Ward, BAG | Survey and excavation trenches produced evidence of a series of buildings, their floors and finds dating to the...
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 of a previously unrecorded building showed it to belong to the Bastle House tradition of...
Cist No 1. Cup marks on the side slab are natural

Excavation report of the three Early Christian graves at Lyne, in 2005

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Download – Excavation of three Early Christian graves at Lyne, near Peebles | 2005 | 1.5MB | Tam Ward, Bag | The discovery of a single cist found to be eroding from a gravel bank led to the detection of...
Harehill Knowe mound

Harehill Knowe survey & excavation

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Download – Harehill Knowe near Broughton, Peebleshire survey and excavation | 2015 | 554KB | Tam Ward, BAG | As part of a larger research project, itself originating from a programme of survey work in Upper Tweeddale by Biggar Archaeology...
Chapelgill survey from above

Chapelgill in Glenholm survey and excavation in 2013

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Download – Chapelgill survey and excavation | 2013 | 5MB | Tam Ward, BAG | Through the survey and partial excavation on an upland settlement site, evidence of turf and lime mortared buildings and occupation dating from the 17th to...
Melbourne excavation mini beaker found in main pit

Melbourne Farm excavations , 1996

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Download – Excavations at Melbourne Farm 1996 | 2013 | 2.9MB | Tam Ward, BAG Following on from successful fieldwalking at Melbourne Farm, four miles north of Biggar, excavations revealed a landscape of in situ features with ceramic and lithic...

Upper Tweed Project Reports for Logan and Woodend

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

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Survey of Kirkurd Churchyard

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In the spring of 2023 the members of the Biggar Archaeology Group with the support of Peeblesshire Archaeological Society and Scottish Borders Council surveyed...