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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Little Wood HillCountry: 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
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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"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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