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 assemblages dating from the Early and Late Neolithic, but including a beaker burial. Rescue excavation was allowed by the kind permission of Scottish Woodlands Ltd.
This report is given as a preamble to the main report on excavations and it has been modified slightly since it was written in 1996.