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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725812
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725812
NX25NW 46 2246 5830
150m SE of Dervaird farmhouse, S of the A75 and immediately W of a small stream, is a turf-covered mound up to 0.8m in height and measuring 14.5m E-W by 12m N-S. Although no stone is visible, the mound is hollowed on the S, giving the classic shape of a burnt mound.
Visited by J Murray, May 1987
Excavated 1987 by CEU in advance of roadworks. Timber-lined cooking-pit revealed.
C Russell-White and J Barber 1987
A rescue excavation of this burnt mound was undertaken in advance of its destruction by work on the Glenluce By-pass of the A75. Excavation revealed that the horseshoe shaped mound (appoximately 10m by 12m by 1m high overall) consisted of heat shattered stones in a dark, charcoal rich matrix. Between the 'horns' of the mound a pit, some 2m by 1m, had been cut into the boulder clay. This was partly slab-lined and on its floor lay a large tangentially split oak plant. This was approximately 1m wide and 17cm thick at one end tapering to 0.10m wide and 2cm thick at the other.
J Barber 1987.
