Research Projects

In the area of the upper reaches of the Rivers Tweed and Clyde, there are five major reservoirs which have been inspected by BAG during periods of low water levels; these are Camps and Daer in Crawford parish in...

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Mesolithic Biggar A range for microliths from excavations at Weston, Pre-history North of Biggar project Mesolithic sites are being discovered almost on an annual basis by BAG, principally through arable fieldwalking, but reservoir and forestry work has also produced several sites. Large...

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Since 1981 after the discovery that Windgate House near Coulter was a bastle house, search, survey and in some instances excavation, has revealed a series of hitherto unknown such houses in Upper Clydesdale. Research continues on the subject of...

Bastle Houses and Sheep Buchts Coming from zero in terms of knowledge of these sites, we have now recorded bastles or possible bastles, countless sheep milking buchts and numerous shieling sites. The emerging scenario depicts tenant farmers, rearing sheep and...

This report features a localised grouping of castle sites and a bastle house that are given as a guide to defensive sites dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries in Upper Clydesdale, South Lanarkshire. Map showing locations of sites...