Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 76

Provides an outline of the history of indexing the Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc and describes a recent project to store the index within a database system, utilising the Microsoft Access platform. The index database is available as a CD-ROM, while a tabular format version of the `subject' and `author' indices is available online (at time of writing) at http://users.quista.net/dgnhas/

Reconsiders some of the sculptures from Birrens, including the larger and smaller Victory friezes, a figure of a boar, and an imported limestone head. Also features a specialist report on:

Reviews the archaeological evidence for the organisation of the later prehistoric landscape that has emerged from work in the Border Counties over the last twenty years. It challenges any assumption that prehistoric farms and territories were defined by artificial boundaries, and concludes that such boundaries were unnecessary in most of the hill country. In the light of a case study drawn from the landscape around the fort of Castle O'er, near Eskdalemuir, it identifies a topographically defined territorial unit whose elements include a fortified caput, a surrounding system of enclosures defined by linear earthworks, an associated ritual enclosure and a series of lesser settlements. This unit also defines a medieval estate, and the paper speculates that the organisation of some elements of the of the medieval estate structure may originate in later prehistory.

Outlines the historical, archaeological and toponymical evidence relating to the Praemonstratensian monastery of Holywood.

which notes that the assemblage comprises sixty pieces of flaked stone, mostly chert

Reports investigations in advance of the development of a supermarket on the site of a livestock market. The most significant discovery was a substantial ditch orientated approximately north/south, from which artefacts of the later twelfth to early fifteenth centuries were recovered. This ditch and a sandstone wall associated with it may correspond to the former town boundary mapped in the eighteenth-century. Includes separately authored reports on: