Pre-history North of Biggar

The full essay in pdf  attempts to understand aspects of the lifestyles of the Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) people who arrived for seasonal camps at Howburn Farm near Biggar, and who are assumed to have been following and living...

Download the full report How did Late Upper Palaeolithic reindeer hunters live?. This essay attempts to understand aspects of the lifestyles of the Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) people who arrived for seasonal camps at Howburn Farm near Biggar, and who...

A new pdf report with a partial photographic presentation of the Howburn Farm Late Upper Palaeolithic and later prehistoric tool and lithic assemblage is now available to download. Howburn Farm is currently a unique name in Scottish archaeology as having...

At last, and it has been worth the wait – we have the Howburn Book, a report principally by Torben Bjarke Ballin, a leading lithics expert and no stranger to Biggar Archaeology Group because he also did a report...

The wee village of Elsrickle, in South Lanarkshire was recently made famous as being the village near the oldest known place of human activity in Scotland; Howburn Farm where people arrived from Denmark, by following reindeer over what is...

A mixed assemblage of pre-historic lithics including several tools was picked up from fields surrounding Wester Yardhouse Farm near Carnwath, circa NT 010 520, by the late Mr George Elder, farmer there, and perhaps also by his ploughman Mr...

Biggar Common The Biggar Common Project was another upland forestry operation that was initiated when a moorland area, known never to have been under cultivation, was deep furrow ploughed in readiness for planting. The initial finds, reported by Martain Brown, a...

Melbourne Area This project was initiated in response to the finds obtained by fieldwalking in the area flanking the A702 to the east of Melbourne crossroads. Melbourne crossroads An opportunity for a detailed investigation was provided by the development in 1995 of...

The prominent Blackmount Hill lies somewhat isolated on the west side of the A702 road between the villages of Dolphinton and Elsrickle; it has views in all directions looking over one of the most prolific pre-historic landscapes in Scotland. The...

The cairns lying on the northern slopes of Corse Law are part of a major concentration of such features, possibly the largest in Scotland, that extends in the southern part of the Pentland Hills from the West Linton...

Weston Farm While on a chance visit to Weston Farm in 1997, the writer learned of a field that had been ploughed for the first time. A few minutes searching turned up a chert leaf arrowhead, a piece of...

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Since 1997 the ploughed fields of Brownsbank Farm have been walked as part of The Pre-History North of Biggar Project operated by the Biggar Archaeology Group (BAG). In the spring of 2000 a series of locations with surface scatters of Early Neolithic pottery was found in one field (No 4). Several locations were excavated (2000 – 2001) to test for surviving in situ archaeology, and at one, a significant assemblage of pottery was retrieved, which was in association with Arran pitchstone, Langdale Pike Group VI axe flakes, a lithic assemblage and pits containing further pottery and charcoal enriched fills. Radiocarbon dates were obtained from two contexts.

Download - Migration routes of animals and people in the Late Upper Paleolithic | 2013 | 508KB | Tam Ward, BAG Further thoughts on the migration routes of animals and people in the Late Upper Paleolithic period in the central...

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...

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With the Howburn archaeological site now shown to be the oldest open-air site in Scotland, dating to the last phases of the last glacial period, the Devensian Epoch, comes the pressing need to understand the environment these Late Upper...

Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk

Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk

Developments in understanding the ice age lake sediments from Loch Howburn by Richard Tipping, 31 July 2010 In the last report (Sediment Core Analysis 1), I described the work Lucy Verrill and I were doing in trying to understand the record...