Carronbridge, Dumfries and Galloway: the excavation of Bronze Age cremations, Iron Age settlements and a Roman camp

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Issue:

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 124

Series:

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Volume:

124

Page Start/End:

233 - 291

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Journal

Abstract:

Cropmarks of a square, double-ditched IA/RB enclosure, a Roman temporary camp and another sub-rectangular enclosure were excavated in advance of road building. All monuments were plough damaged. The square enclosure contained six intersecting circular buildings, one surrounded by a ditch, and three sunken features with charcoal rich fills. A cobbled surface in the south-east corner may indicate a Roman road. Radiocarbon dates from the enclosure ranged from 145~BC to AD~415 and 1285~BC to 230~BC. The Roman camp contained postholes rich in charred barley and wheat. The third and earliest enclosure was defended by a ditch and palisade; the temporary camp re-used part of its ditch. An oven, probably associated with the Roman camp, was also found in the third enclosure. Three cremation burials were found north of the square enclosure. Two were contained in collared urns, which were found in small cists. The third was in a pit and unaccompanied. There are notes on: `The pottery' by A MacSween (264, 265); `Thin section petrology of the vessels' by D Dixon (264); `The cremated bone' by S Parker (264, 266); `The trumpet brooch' by L Allason-Jones (266--7); `The penannular brooch, sword and sickle' by O Owen & R Welander (267--8); `Other copper alloy and iron objects' by B A Ford (268); `The glass' by J Henderson (268--9); `The coarse stone' by A Clarke (269); `The vitreous waste from enclosure A' by E Slater & D A Johnston (269); `The charred plant remains' by S Boardman (270); `The soils' by S Carter (271--2); `Radiocarbon dates' M Dalland (273).

Author:

Daniel A Johnston

Other Person/Org:

Isabel H Holroyd (Abstract author)

Year of Publication:

1994

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Cremated Bone (Auto Detected Subject)

Settlements (Auto Detected Subject)

Postholes (Auto Detected Subject)

Cremation Burials (Auto Detected Subject)

Camp (Auto Detected Subject)

PIT (Monument Type England)

Copper Alloy (Auto Detected Subject)

Sunken Features (Auto Detected Subject)

Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject)

Road Radiocarbon Dates (Auto Detected Subject)

Subrectangular Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject)

Glass (Auto Detected Subject)

Temporary Camp (Auto Detected Subject)

Trumpet Brooch (Auto Detected Subject)

Charcoal (Auto Detected Subject)

SHERD (Object England)

Charred Plant Remains (Auto Detected Subject)

Iron (Auto Detected Subject)

Charred Barley (Auto Detected Subject)

Camp Cropmarks (Auto Detected Subject)

Brooch Sword (Auto Detected Subject)

DITCH (Monument Type England)

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Created Date:

20 Jan 2002

Johnston, D. A. (1994). Carronbridge, Dumfries and Galloway: the excavation of Bronze Age cremations, Iron Age settlements and a Roman camp. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 124. Vol 124, pp. 233-291.

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