<< Text Pages >> Carwood Farm - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in North Lanarkshire
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Multi-periodSite Name: Carwood FarmCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: North Lanarkshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Biggar
Map Ref: NT039401
Latitude: 55.644908N Longitude: 3.528471W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 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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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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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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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ancient Settlement in North Lanarkshire. Biggar Archaeology Group have discovered the location of an ancient 5000-6000-year-old settlement site in a ploughed field at Carwood Farm near the town. After only two days walking ploughed fields to look for evidence of the past, an annual Spring event for the group, the ancient site was located.
Tam Ward, group leader, explained: “Last year we found a few flints at this location, and this time the first thing we noticed on the ground were carbonised hazel nut shells and bits of pottery.
“Straight away, we knew this meant the Early Stone Age when the first people to settle on the land built houses, used pottery and farmed the landscape. Such sites are rare in Britain.”
Farmer Colin Wight readily gave permission to dig the site before sowing began on the field and the search was on to find out exactly what lay below the soil.
Tam added: “After two gruelling weekends, we opened a huge trench and found lots of pottery, bits of stone axes and several pits cut into the ground.
“These all contained charcoal which will be analysed and dated to give us a picture of what the landscape would have been like and an accurate date for the site.
“One pit was stuffed with pottery from at least two pots.”
This was discovered by Elliot Veitch, a young archaeologist from Biggar Museums.
The eight-year-old said: “I love archaeology, but never thought I'd find something as old as this. The pottery is older than the pyramids!”
The site is covered over once more but the group will be out searching more fields.
Source: Hamilton Advertiser.
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