M80 Stepps to Haggs Improvement Scheme: Report on Archaeological Monitoring of Works

Date 13 February 2009 - 24 March 2011

Event ID 993043

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NS 657 693 to NS 793 798 A watching brief was undertaken 13 February – 24 March 2011 during construction work associated with the M80 motorway improvement scheme. Few archaeological features were recorded, and the results were comparable to those of the evaluation carried out by Headland in 2007.

Monitoring of areas immediately adjacent to the M80 revealed that there had been significant landscaping during road construction in the 1960s, which probably removed much of the archaeology at these locations. No features were recorded in the areas where peat had developed. At other locations more suitable for habitation, such as on higher and better draining ground, some evidence for agricultural activity dating from the medieval period onwards was recorded.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: WoSAS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland on behalf of Transport Scotland

Alistair Robertson, Headland Archaeology Ltd 2012. OASIS ID: headland1-101979