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<< Other Photo Pages >> Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns - Passage Grave in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Kippford  Nearest Village: Douglas Hall
Map Ref: NX88105505
Latitude: 54.877647N  Longitude: 3.745561W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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4Good
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1Awful
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 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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KenMP visited on 1st Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Found while out cycling around Colvend in Kirkcudbrightshire. Lucky to find dig director Alistair Penman at the site and he and a volunteer very generously gave an hour of their time to show me round this fascinating site and to explain its many layered archaeology.

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by dodomad : A trench from the 2016 dig Photo Credit: Stewartry Archaeological Trust (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient burial site consisting of 3 Neolithic kerb cairns, adapted for later Bronze Age/Iron Age burials with settlement evidence from the Anglian and Medieval eras in the form of stonework.

A fourth season of excavation in 2005 confirmed the existence of one Neolithic passage grave on each cairn. The burial feature on Newbarns South Cairn was robbed in antiquity by builders who, it was recorded, were seeking materials for the construction of nearby houses.

The Neolithic passage grave was further excavated to reveal the 4.2 metres long passage leading from the kerbed edge of the cairn to the entrance of the burial chamber. This has either been filled in after use when the monument was closed for posterity, or has been backfilled in medieval times and a timber building erected over it.

By the end of the 2007 season a total of eighteen prehistoric burial pits, the earliest having been dated to the Early Bronze Age, had been identified. To the north-east of the existing north cairn a further, smaller, satellite cairn was recovered from the peat covering the old loch bottom. On its northern perimeter there is evidence of burial in the form of a huge granite capstone sitting on granite cushion stones.

Three further Early Bronze Age boat-shaped burials, with the bows of the boats pointing towards the east, have been identified, but not yet excavated due to the adverse weather conditions in 2102. What is now apparent is that a series of later palimpsest burials have been placed on top of them which have been tentatively dated to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Read more at the Newbarns Project (Stewartry Archaeological Trust) and see the Canmore ID 295523 entry.

Note: Newbarns project archaeological excavation, running until Friday 23rd September, visitors are very welcome to the dig
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Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Creative Commons : South Cairn, Newbarns Archaeological Dig At one time this field was below the surface of nearby Newbarns Loch until it was drained to expose the fertile soils for cultivation. Copyright Mick Garratt and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Energyman : This is an overview panorama of half of the site (North). The knoll is center. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Energyman : This is the burial chamber at the bottom of the dig reaching up the side of the Knoll. It is aligned very nearly N-S (2degrees off). This is taken from the South. It is at 54.877645N and 3.745395W +or- 6m (Vote or comment on this photo)

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Energyman : This is the same trench as the photo from 2016, but now in 2018 you can see they have progressed.This trench runs up the side of a distinctive knoll, from the summit of which you would have seen the Minor Lunar Standstill most Southerly set running down the East slope of the little hill at Fairgirth. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by KenMP : Diggers - Ken, Oss and May - pointing out the burial where this season’s polished quartz pebble was found. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by KenMP : The 2017 season is well underway. An early find was a second (smaller) polished quartz pebble retrieved from an Iron Age burial pit. Both this find and the earlier one are in the photo.

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by dodomad : No captions for these but I presume they are thought to be man made marks on the stones - lots more on the Stewartry Archaeological Trust Facebook page Photo Credit: Stewartry Archaeological Trust

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Creative Commons : The Dig site at Newbarns (NX 881548) Copyright Rod Collier and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence

Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns
Newbarns Passage Grave and Cairns submitted by Creative Commons : The North Cairn. From the Newbarns Archaeological Dig, 2010 season, which concentrated on the North Cairn. Copyright Mick Garratt and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

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Re: Newbarns project archaeological excavation by Andy B on Sunday, 04 September 2016
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The most recent interim reports are here
http://sat.org.uk/newbarns/

Three further Early Bronze Age boat-shaped burials, with the bows of the boats pointing towards the east, which were identified in 2012, on the North Cairn were subject to limited excavation when it was found that a stone founded granite construction had been erected and set into the cuts within their joint perimeters.

There is a standing stone half-a-mile to the north of the North Cairn, ref: DES 2009, 55; DES 2010, 54.
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Newbarns dig now in its 14th year, running until the 23rd September by Andy B on Sunday, 04 September 2016
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The 2016 Digging Season dates are Monday 4th July to Friday 23rd September 2016 at Newbarns.

Visitors are extremely welcome! We would like to make people aware that the excavation at Newbarns is not waterlogged nor is "it is not just a pile of stones" and we have had university students, locals and holidaymakers coming on site to assist in our archaeology this season.


Visit our Photoblog on our News Page http://sat.org.uk/news/ or watch our introductory video for more information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzNVGxqdIE



More details at http://sat.org.uk/
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Newbarns project archaeological excavation, running until Sat 27th July by Andy B on Wednesday, 17 July 2013
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Ancient burial site consisting of 3 Neolithic kerb cairns, adapted for later Bronze Age/Iron Age burials with settlement evidence from the Anglian and Medieval eras in the form of stonework.

Organiser: Stewartry Archaeological Trust (SC040018)
Booking details: Prebooking required
Fee details: Contributions greatly received but no charge for entry or having a go.

Sat 13th Jul 2013 10:30-16:00 — Sat 27th Jul 2013 10:30-16:00

Newbarns Estate, Newbarns, Colvend,
Dalbeattie
DG5 4PY

Tel: 01556 680478
Email: e.penman2012@btinternet.com
Web: http://www.sat.org.uk
Directions: Just off the A710 Colvend to Sandyhills Road.

Part of the 2013 Festival of British Archaeology
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    Re: Newbarns project archaeological excavation, running until Sat 27th July by Anonymous on Sunday, 08 April 2018
    One of the worst frauds ever.
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      Re: Newbarns project archaeological excavation, running until Sat 27th July by Andy B on Sunday, 08 April 2018
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      Why?
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        Re: Newbarns project archaeological excavation, running until Sat 27th July by Anonymous on Monday, 09 April 2018
        One of the worst affairs
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