Biggar Museum Daer Valley Survey

Date 2002

Event ID 554580

Category Project

Type Project

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The Daer Valley has been resurveyed with a significant number of sites being recorded for the first time, of which the following are the most significant. The area is being used by Biggar Museum as a project base which will be the prototype for a series of similar projects in the coming years.

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
554593	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	On the NE side of Comb Law and between Coom Burn and Rae Cleuch there is a burnt, prominent mound, 5 x 5 x 1m. It lies on the slope, immediately below a hill drain. The original spring course wason the S side of the mound, which is covered in the same short grass that surrounds it. [...]	2002
554582	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NS 952 088 Burnt mound; under excavation and to be radiocarbon dated. [...]	2002
554588	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	On the southern slope of Sweetshaw Brae are at least seven cairns and a burnt mound. The mound is 35m S of farm buildings, on a terrace on the NE side of the Daer Reservoir. It is a classic kidney-shaped mound, 12m x 5m, with a gradually-narrowing W end. On the N side there is an active spring emerging from the ground, which may have been the original source for the site. [...]	2002

Biggar Museum Daer Valley Survey

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