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Weston Farm
Chert Scatter (Prehistoric), Flint Scatter(S) (Prehistoric), Arrowhead(S) (Period Unassigned), Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Quern (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Neolithic)
Site Name Weston Farm
Classification Chert Scatter (Prehistoric), Flint Scatter(S) (Prehistoric), Arrowhead(S) (Period Unassigned), Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Quern (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Firpark Wood
Canmore ID 140913
Site Number NT04NW 59
NGR NT 026 465
NGR Description Centred NT 026 465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/140913
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carnwath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NW 59 centred 026 465
NT 026 465 (centre) Fieldwalking by volunteers and students over an area ploughed for the first known time has produced a range of lithics and pottery. Numerous locations were located where Southern Uplands chert was being knapped; at least one of these sites is attributable to the Mesolithic, as cores, blades and microliths were found by excavation. A second excavation produced a large quantity of chert-knapping debris and tools where longer blades were being manufactured.
Several locations where Early Neolithic carinated pottery was found in association with pitchstone flakes and cores, carbonised hazel kernels, and flakes from Type VI axes, are interpreted as settlement sites. A trench was opened at the largest concentration of pottery, but no features were located. A few sherds of later Neolithic decorated pottery were found. Other random finds include a fine stone axe, assorted flint tools including slug knives, scrapers, leaf- and barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, a chisel-shaped arrowhead, hammerstones, and a rock crystal (?amulet) which had been used as a rubber at one end and had two indents showing that perforation was intended. Also, a fine saddle quern with top rubbing stone were found together but without context.
Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Lanark and District Archaeological Society.
T Ward 1998
NT 0276 4659 Geophysical survey was conducted over three areas found to contain concentrations of worked chert, following fieldwalking by Tam Ward and Chris Barrowman. The field in which the work was undertaken had not been ploughed in living memory, and revealed a large number of pieces of worked chert and pottery sherds, identified as Middle to Late Neolithic.
Three areas were examined using a fluxgate gradiometer. No significant anomalies were detected, and trial trenches placed over possible areas of interest based on the geophysics results failed to locate any features associated with the lithic concentrations.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Scottish Lithic Scatters Project.
L Sharpe 1998.
Field Walking (1998)
NT 026 465 (centre) Fieldwalking by volunteers and students over an area ploughed for the first known time has produced a range of lithics and pottery. Numerous locations were located where Southern Uplands chert was being knapped; at least one of these sites is attributable to the Mesolithic, as cores, blades and microliths were found by excavation. A second excavation produced a large quantity of chert-knapping debris and tools where longer blades were being manufactured.
Several locations where Early Neolithic carinated pottery was found in association with pitchstone flakes and cores, carbonised hazel kernels, and flakes from Type VI axes, are interpreted as settlement sites. A trench was opened at the largest concentration of pottery, but no features were located. A few sherds of later Neolithic decorated pottery were found. Other random finds include a fine stone axe, assorted flint tools including slug knives, scrapers, leaf- and barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, a chisel-shaped arrowhead, hammerstones, and a rock crystal (?amulet) which had been used as a rubber at one end and had two indents showing that perforation was intended. Also, a fine saddle quern with top rubbing stone were found together but without context.
Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Lanark and District Archaeological Society.
T Ward 1998
Trial Trench (1998)
NT 026 465 (centre) Fieldwalking by volunteers and students over an area ploughed for the first known time has produced a range of lithics and pottery. Numerous locations were located where Southern Uplands chert was being knapped; at least one of these sites is attributable to the Mesolithic, as cores, blades and microliths were found by excavation. A second excavation produced a large quantity of chert-knapping debris and tools where longer blades were being manufactured.
Several locations where Early Neolithic carinated pottery was found in association with pitchstone flakes and cores, carbonised hazel kernels, and flakes from Type VI axes, are interpreted as settlement sites. A trench was opened at the largest concentration of pottery, but no features were located. A few sherds of later Neolithic decorated pottery were found. Other random finds include a fine stone axe, assorted flint tools including slug knives, scrapers, leaf- and barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, a chisel-shaped arrowhead, hammerstones, and a rock crystal (?amulet) which had been used as a rubber at one end and had two indents showing that perforation was intended. Also, a fine saddle quern with top rubbing stone were found together but without context.
Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Lanark and District Archaeological Society.
T Ward 1998
Magnetometry (1998)
NT 0276 4659 Geophysical survey was conducted over three areas found to contain concentrations of worked chert, following fieldwalking by Tam Ward and Chris Barrowman. The field in which the work was undertaken had not been ploughed in living memory, and revealed a large number of pieces of worked chert and pottery sherds, identified as Middle to Late Neolithic.
Three areas were examined using a fluxgate gradiometer. No significant anomalies were detected, and trial trenches placed over possible areas of interest based on the geophysics results failed to locate any features associated with the lithic concentrations.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Scottish Lithic Scatters Project.
L Sharpe 1998.
