Archaeology Notes

Event ID 723582

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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c.128 547.

A large part of this area is now occupied by the bombing targets of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at West Freugh, but it has been a prolific source of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery and flintwork. Other finds include two penannular brooches (5th-7th centuries AD) in the dunes to the SE (NX c.129 546 and 131 545) and a bronze pin to the SW (NX c.128 546 ). Excavations in this area were carried out in 1951 and 1976, the latter by Mr T Cowie for the Central Excavation Unit of Historic Buildings and Monuments, Scottish Develop ment Department.

In 1976 excavation at two locations (NX 1283 5469 and 1294 5461) revealed undisturbed deposits of Late Neolithic pottery, flintwork and burnt stones in shallow hollows in the C horizon of a buried soil; at the former, ploughmarks were recovered from the upper surface of the soil.

RCAHMS 1987