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National Archaeological Survey, Special Surveys
Date 1994 - 1995
Event ID 1112437
Category Project
Type Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112437
Three projects have been carried out. Two concerned the positions of cup-and-ring markings, and the third the depiction of the Siller Holes in Tweeddale District, which has been reproduced here. The requests to position the cup-and-ring markings stemmed from different sources. In the one case, the National Museums of Scotland was supervising the removal of the decorated rock outcrops from the quarry at Greenland [NS47SW 4], in Dumbarton District, while in the other the Record colleagues had requested a survey to help incorporate the material relating to several decorated stones near the Lake of Menteith, Stirling District, into the archive. This was duly carried out and several new examples were also recorded.
The request to survey the Siller Holes came jointly from the National Museums of Scotland and the Borders Regional Archaeologist, following the discovery of numerous fragments of textiles, leather and medieval pottery in the upcast from a pond dug at the foot of the northern flank of Lead Law. The presence of the lead mines known as the Siller Holes immediately up the slope raises the possibility that the artefacts may relate to a phase of the mining activity. While no relationship can be discerned from the survey, further environmental work should help to resolve the chronology and duration of the mining represented by the pits and spoil dumps.
RCAHMS, Annual Report, 1994-5
