Meet the Ancestors at Braehead, Glasgow
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 17 May 2001 Page Views: 886
DigsIn association with West of Scotland Archaeology Service and Glasgow City Council
Visitors to Braehead can travel back in time when they visit the
latest development - an Iron Age defended settlement.
Archaeologists have begun excavating the site - thought to be over
2000 years old - and for the next nine weeks will welcome the
public and school groups to explore the site for themselves.
The settlement's defences, measuring about eighty by sixty metres,
were first revealed on an RAF aerial photograph taken in 1968, and
seem to have survived by chance amidst the surrounding industrial
development. The site sits beside the Ikea building currently
under construction, and with the development of the Braehead site
by Capital Shopping Centres, permission to excavate the site was
granted by Glasgow City Council.
Archaeologists believe the site was occupied by an important extended family unit and was probably only used during the summer months when there was no risk of flooding. These Celtic people were probably part of the 'Damnonii' tribe, thought to be on good terms with the Romans who invaded Scotland in the first and second centuries AD.
Visitors to the archaeological site will discover how these people lived and worked along the banks of the Clyde and what their houses would have been like. An exhibition will be on permanent display and guided tours of the site are available for free. The general public can visit at weekends between 10am and 4pm until 22 July this year. Other interested parties can book a visit Wednesday to Friday, from 10am to 4pm by calling the hotline number 0141 885 4629.
Visitors should park in the Retail Park car park, near Burger King and enter the site on foot. The entrance to the site is beside the Ikea construction site, heading away from the shopping centre.
For more information, please contact Julia Strang, Marketing Assistant, on 0141 885 1441.
Further information can be found on the AOC Archaeology web site, at www.aocarchaeology.com/braehead
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