How did Late Upper Palaeolithic reindeer hunters live?
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...
How did Late Upper Palaeolithic reindeer hunters live?
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...
The Howburn Farm Lithic Tools
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...
The Howburn Book
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...
Howburn – Sediment Coring and the significance of stratigraphy beneath Strathbogie Plantation
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...
An Upper Palaolithc assemblage – Howburn Farm
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
The Swimming Reindeer
Biggar Archaeology Group Clydesdale Project, Daer Valley project 2010 latest update. info@biggararchaeology.org.uk
Sediment core labratory analysis 2
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...
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 to collect four boxes of flints she had in her possession, they were arrow heads...
Over the road at Howburn
Five square metre pits were dug on the opposite side of the road from the Howburn Palaeolithic site to check if the site spread in that direction
No Palaeolithic flint was found but several sherds of Early Neolithic pottery, a...
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 the village.
The work is part of the study into the recently discovered site on Howburn...
Sediment core labratory analysis 1
Labratory analysis of the sediments from the Priest's Well Basin, Elsrickle
by Richard Tipping, 2 March 2010
A lot of work since November 2009 has shown that the floor of the valley below the Howburn archaeological site contains the sediments of...
Celebrating 14,000 years of Scottish history
The Biggar Archaeology Group held a celebration party at the Moat Park Heritage Centre on Monday evening, as a thank you to all of the people who helped on their recent excavation at Howburn Farm.
The party was hosted by...
Scotland’s first people exhibition
We have completed an exhibition in the Moat Park Heritage Centre in Biggar. This exhibition showcases the finds and the story of the earliest people of Scotland - the Reindeer Hunters from 14,000 years ago.
The story is being told...
Howburn Excavation Final Update for Fieldwork
Goodbye Howburn, the end of a great project.
The dig is over and what a result we have achieved.
Proof positive is now available for Scotland’s earliest known community in the Hamburgian period of the Late Upper Palaeolithic; this is in...
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 with them. However, even though we know there are lots more of these fantastic finds,...
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 final tally of probably five tanged points being found there, along with a large number...
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 is a scatter of flint and chert, the flint probably mostly being Upper Palaeolithic and...
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 any old flint, it is the oldest in Scotland.
A very nice end scraper and several...
Howburn Excavation Update 2 May 2009
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:
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Survey of Kirkurd Churchyard
In the spring of 2023 the members of the Biggar Archaeology Group with the support of Peeblesshire Archaeological Society and Scottish Borders Council surveyed...
