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Howburn, Near Biggar, South Lanarkshire: Preliminary Notice of a Scottish Inland Early Holocene Lithic Assemblage
This paper draws preliminary attention to the recent discovery of evidence for early
Holocene human presence at Howburn, near Biggar, in the interior of southern Scotland.
Implement types invite comparison with so-called Star Carr type Early Mesolithic
assemblages of the 10th millennium BP, or possibly with even earlier technological
traditions
Excavations on the site of a late Iron Age roundhouse and souterrain, Glen Cloy, Brodick, Isle of Arran
Archaeological monitoring during topsoil stripping of a hotel and leisure development site in Glen Cloy, Isle of Arran in 2001 revealed the presence of a well-preserved, substantial roundhouse and an associated complex souterrain. The discovery is significant in terms of the information it provides for the distribution of souterrains in Scotland generally and in the west in particular, and for settlement and craft activities on Arran in the late Iron Age. Dates obtained from the roundhouse suggest a construction date in the late 2nd or early 1st century BC