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Biggar Common
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S) (Period Unassigned), Core(S) (Chert)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Biggar Common
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S) (Period Unassigned), Core(S) (Chert)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cairn 1
Canmore ID 72618
Site Number NT03NW 79
NGR NT 0028 3886
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72618
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Biggar
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT03NW 79 0028 3886
See also NT03NW 74, NT03NW 75 and NT03NW 77
Please note: excavation photographs from Biggar Common archive which are unidentified are filed with MS/1021, until a photographic list is available or are firmly identified. They may be of this site or NT03NW 80 or 81.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This round cairn, said by Ward to be situated near cairn 7 (NT03NW 74 at NT002 388) was excavated in 1988, the excavations continuing into 1990. Artefacts found were sherds of a long-necked beaker of Clark's N2 group (at first thought to have been a food vessel) in a secondary position and a handled beaker accompanying an assumed pit inhumation - no traces of body were found in the burial pit. A well- preserved old ground surface was sampled.
A Sheridan 1989; D A Johnston 1990; T Ward 1991.
NT 00 38 (area) Fieldwalking in 1987 by the Lanark and District Archaeology society following ploughing for commercial forestry produced evidence for neolithic and later prehistoric activity on Biggar Common. Surface finds included Western Neolithic pottery and worked flint, chert and pitchstone, occuring both as a general scatter and with concentrations. Several round cairns and a long mound were also discovered. One round cairn, excavated in 1988, produced sherds of Food Vessel in a secondary position and a handled Beaker accompanying an assumed pit inhumation (no traces of body left) centrally under the cairn. A long mound nearby was partially excavated in 1988; no meaningful structural evidence to support an interpretation as neolithic short long barrow was found. Work on this planned to continue late 1989.
Sponsor: SDD HBM.
A Sheridan 1989
