Treasured Places
Date 16 August 2007
Event ID 546115
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/546115
A range of features, dating from different periods, were uncovered during excavations in advance of development in an area N of Lockerbie.
The earliest structure found was a large timber hall dating from the Neolithic period, measuring 27m by 8m. The fourth site of its kind to be found in Scotland, the walls of the building were defined by large postholes, beam slots and bedding trenches.
A small Bronze Age cemetery, consisting of three cremation burials and two possible inhumation burials was also found. Near this, two further cremation burials were discovered.
The latest structure to be excavated was another timber hall, measuring 19m by 8m, its construction suggesting a 7th century AD date. Foundation trenches showed where its walls once stood, partially overlying the remains of an earlier building.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 16 August 2007
Richardson, P and Kirby, M 2006
