Auldhill, Portencross

Caldwell, David H; Ewart, Gordon; Triscott, Jonathan; Cullen, I; Franklin, Julie; Hunter, Fraser; Paterson, Leonie

doi:10.1080/00665983.1998.11078846

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“…Most famously, the duns at Aldclune were excavated in 1980 under difficult conditions prior to the re-routing of the A9 road (Hingley et al 1997: 407), while the fort at Carwinning Hill was excavated in advance of quarrying (Cowie 1977;1978). Almost 30 sites (about 5%) have been partially excavated since 1945 (eg Piggott 1956;Martlew & Ruggles 1996;Caldwell et al 1998), while a further 30 have been subject to some form of archaeological evaluation.…”

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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Angus Graham and Gordon Childe (1935–46)

Geddes¹

2017

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This paper explores the story of Scotland's national survey body, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, between 1935 and 1946, with reference to Angus Graham, their Secretary, and Vere Gordon Childe, perhaps the best-known archaeologist of the 20th century. Much of the narrative describes the Commission's survey of Orkney and Shetland, an eight year project which brought close contact with Childe, and special attention is given to debate over the Neolithic sites at Skara Brae and Rinyo. The outbreak of war in 1939 delayed their report for some seven years, but the government supported a major programme of rescue recording to mitigate damage caused by enemy bombing and the training of allied troops. In 1938 Childe was passed over for membership of the Commission, who felt that they had sufficient archaeological expertise. His extreme anger at this snub was to be reflected in a negative review of their forthcoming report, but was allayed by neat footwork on the part of the chairman. In 1942, when the Commissioners did indeed put Childe forward as a member it was the Secretary of State for Scotland that stood in their way. Dedicated efforts by the Commission finally persuaded him that Childe was not in fact a Communist threat, and he and Graham went on to record some 636 ancient monuments, while Graham alone took 2,200 images of historic buildings. The archive material (and Graham's diaries in particular) shine a light on what was a pioneering project in testing times. The circumstances of the war, and the short duration of Childe's membership, meant that his influence was in fact felt through fieldwork and not, as one may have expected, in the development of the Commission's over-arching syntheses.

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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Angus Graham and Gordon Childe (1935–46)

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2017

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“…it certainly merits more attention, as it is one of the few craft processes we can reconstruct in detail, and one which is abundant in areas near the raw materials, especially central and western scotland and coastal sutherland. elsewhere the subject has seen more study: the Kimmeridge shale industry of dorset, while there are valuable site-specific studies from Bronze Age sites in Derbyshire (Calkin 1955;Beswick 1979;Radley 1969;Cox & Mills 1991). further afield, the working of similar black organic stone materials is known across large parts of continental europe throughout the Iron Age (Rochna 1962(Rochna , 1974Chevillot 1976;Venclová 1992Venclová , 1998Vuaillat 1992;Pouenat & Vernet 2002).…”

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Total excavation of a later prehistoric enclosure at Braehead, Glasgow

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Anthony²,

Breen³

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Total excavation revealed a later prehistoric multi-ditched and multi-palisaded enclosure succeeded by unenclosed settlement. Despite the obvious investment of time and labour in the construction of the numerous palisades and three large concentric ditches episodic, seasonal use of the site is strongly indicated. Total artefact retrieval produced a cannel coal assemblage which has thrown light on the manufacture of the cannel coal bracelets so typical of later prehistoric sites in west-central Scotland.

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Medieval Timber Motte Towers

Wyeth

2018

Medieval Archaeology

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Auldhill, Portencross

Cited by 7 publications

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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Angus Graham and Gordon Childe (1935–46)

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Angus Graham and Gordon Childe (1935–46)

Total excavation of a later prehistoric enclosure at Braehead, Glasgow

Medieval Timber Motte Towers

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