Crone, A. and Cavers, G. (2015). Black Loch of Myrton 2015: Data Structure Report. AOC Archaeology Ltd. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088334. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Black Loch of Myrton 2015: Data Structure Report
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Series:		 AOC Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 The objectives of the 2015 season were to excavate a portion of Structure 2 and to locate the palisade around the settlement. A team from the AHRC-funded programme Celtic Connections and Crannogs were also present to undertake an extensive coring survey of the Black Loch. Structure 2 had been identified by survey and testpitting in 2013, lying to the SE of Structure 1. Trench 2, 10.5 m x 7.3 m, was opened up, the size and location constrained by the presence of trees. The excavation revealed a roundhouse some 13.2 m in diameter with a massive stone hearth complex at its centre. The outer wall consists of a double line of stakes and within this there is a post-ring which encloses an area 8.8 m in diameter around the hearth. The excavation exposed about 25% of the structure although almost the entire hearth complex was exposed in the SE corner of the trench. The lowermost deposits on the site, those under and immediately around the hearth could not be excavated because of increasing water levels. Consequently, the relationship between the lower floor levels and the lower sequence of hearths cannot be demonstrated with absolute certainty. Nonetheless, floor surfaces have been ascribed to hearth phases by working on the premise that the lowermost surviving floor level must correspond to the lowermost hearth, and so on. The excavated evidence is described from earliest to latest.
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Author:		 Anne Crone
Graeme Cavers
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Publisher:		 AOC Archaeology Ltd
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic Environment Scotland (OASIS Reviewer)
Dumfries and Galloway Archaeological Service (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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Site: Black Loch of Myrton
County: Dumfries
Parish: GLASSERTON
Country: Scotland
Grid Reference: 236100, 542830 (Easting, Northing)
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IRON AGE (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) SHERD (Object England)
IRON AGE (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) STONE TOOLS (Find)
IRON AGE (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) SETTLEMENT (Monument Type Scotland)
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OASIS Id: aocarcha1-245376
OBIB: AOC 60066
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Note:		 Data Structure Report and initial assessment of the excavations in 2015. Plans, sections, peat stratigraphy and plates included.
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021