Traprain Law Environs Project

Date November 2002 - July 2003

Event ID 1097449

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Traprain Law Environs Project

The Traprain Law Environs Project is investigating the settlement and economy of the landscape around Traprain Law during the 1st millennia BC and AD. Since 2000, geophysical surveys have been conducted on 30 neighbouring cropmark sites, which have been followed up by a series of evaluation trenches and open-area excavations.

(NT 555 741) East Bearford. Rectilinear enclosure occupying the top of a terrace at 55m OD, 100m E of Bearford Burn and 2km W of Traprain Law. The main enclosure ditch measured c 4m wide and 2m deep, with a steep inner face. A gully cutting the top of the ditch contained a large rim sherd of Iron Age tradition Cool Type II pottery. A number of other features detected by geomagnetic survey outside the enclosure were also investigated; these are currently undated but are likely to be of similar date.

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsors: HS, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

P Carne, D Hale and C Haselgrove 2003