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<< Other Photo Pages >> Little Wood Hill - Causewayed Enclosure in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 08 March 2015  Page Views: 3554

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Little Wood Hill
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.3 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Castle Douglas
Map Ref: NX7433862318
Latitude: 54.939650N  Longitude: 3.963094W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Little Wood Hill submitted by bat400 : "Archaeologists and volunteers spent a week excavating the site" Credit BBC News at http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-30095028 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Enclosure in Dumfries and Galloway. Roughly D-shaped enclosure, clearly defined on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated on the flattish summit of a conspicuous knoll above the left bank of the River Dee.

"Crop mark and single wide ditch, squarish oval, single gate. Rather Roman looking, especially the gate, but nature not quite certain.
Visited by J K St Joseph 3 September 1949.

As part of a National Trust for Scotland Thistle Camp, volunteers excavated four trial trenches on the summit of Little Wood Hill, in Threave Estate, over the remains of a possible cropmark enclosure in July 2014. Three linear trenches (Tr 1-3) were positioned over the northern, eastern and western sections of the enclosing ditch while a smaller square trench, Tr 4, was opened within the interior of the site. Excavations of the three trenches across the ditch located the sides and cut of the ditch which proved in general to be V-shaped in profile but only in Trench 1 was the bottom of the ditch reached. It proved to be 2.6m wide by 1.2m deep. Artefacts from the site were extremely limited with only three small flakes of flint being recovered from Trench 3 and a range of more recent artefacts in the topsoil. All of the ditch fills however contained flecks and lumps of charcoal and a sample taken from the basal fill of the ditch in Trench 1 has been submitted for radiocarbon dating.

Radiocarbon date for the enclosure of Little Wood Hill, Threave obtained from sample recovered during exacavations in July 2014.

Radiocarbon Age BP: 1968±30
2 Sigma Calibration: 95.4% Probability 44calBC (95.4%) 85calAD
Laboratory Code: SUERC-55533 (GU35229)
Information from NTS (DA) November 2014"
- From the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Site Record.

For more information also see Canmore ID 64677.

Note: Threave Estate dig site dates from Iron Age
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NX7462 : Little Wood Hill by Billy McCrorie
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NX7462 : Threave Estate, The Blue Trail by Billy McCrorie
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NX7462 : Wetland near Little Wood Hill by Billy McCrorie
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NX7462 : The Castle Hide by Billy McCrorie
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NX7462 : Threave Estate, The Blue Trail by Billy McCrorie
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Threave Estate dig site dates from Iron Age by bat400 on Friday, 06 March 2015
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Radiocarbon dating has confirmed a site excavated on the National Trust for Scotland's Threave Estate in Dumfries and Galloway dates from the Iron Age.

Archaeologists and volunteers spent a week excavating the enclosure on Little Wood Hill, overlooking Threave Castle, near Castle Douglas. Although few artefacts were recovered, charcoal flecks and samples were sent for dating. They have now confirmed the site belongs to the Iron Age.

Derek Alexander, head of archaeological services for the NTS, said: "It is always exciting to get radiocarbon results, especially when there was very little else that we could use to date the site. This is the first confirmed prehistoric date that we have on our large estate at Threave. Other sites are known close by, and the discovery, in the 19th century, of significant Iron Age metalwork in Carlingwark Loch and from Torrs, close to Castle Douglas, indicate that this was an area of major importance 2,000 years ago."

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