Sites in Dumfries and Galloway
Articles
A website is to be developed which will give access to all the lovely archaeological objects in the region’s Museum Service’s collections.
“The collection is one of the largest in Scotland and described as a “comprehensive collection of Dumfries and Galloway’s material culture over an 8,000-year period”.”
Archaeologists are engaged in a race to save the remnants of an Iron Age settlement built by one of the most mysterious early peoples of Scotland.
The prehistoric site at Carghidown, near the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, could illuminate the lives of an ancient tribe called the Novantae.
However, the promontory fort located 100ft above the sea, which has a number of extremely rare features, faces destruction after years of wave and wind action and could collapse into the sea... Whole story here.
Taken from an article entitled
The Stone Circles of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright
By Fred Coles, UOBR. MEM. Soc. ANTIQ. SCOT.
Proceedings of the Society of The Antiquities of Scotland, May, 1895.
Summary of Stone Circles
CIRCLES WHOLLY DESTROYED.
1. Near “Roman Camp,” Bombie, Kirkcudbright.
2. „ Boreland Mote, Parton.
3. ,, Kirkgunzeon Manse.
4. „ Glaisters, Kirkgunzeon.
5. „ Airdrie, Kirkbean.
6. In Kirkbean.
CIRCLES PARTIALLY DESTROYED.
1. S.E. of Little Balmae, Kirkcudbright,
2. W. of Balmae House, „
3. Drnmmore, „
4. Park, Tongland (with central stone), .
5. Balannan, „ .
6. Torrs, Kelton, . . . .
7. Torkirra, Kirkgunzeon,
8.’ High Auchenlarie, Anwoth,
CIRCLES APPARENTLY COMPLETE.
1. Glenqnicken Moor, Kirkmabreck (with central stone)
2. Hills, Lochrutton
3. Holm of Daltallochan, Carsphairn
4a. Cauldside, Anwoth
46. „ „
5a. Lairdmannach, Tongland (with central stone)
5ft. „ „
6. Near Lochrinnie Mote, Dairy (with holed stone)
Full title: Report on a survey of crannogs in the south west of Scotland (and excavations at Buiston) ..contains a complete list of known crannogs in D&G, submerged and above water. As of October 2016 many therein to be added to the TMA database...some shewn on OS Explorers not Pathfinders. An example is Whitefield Loch near Glenluce, where one is shown on OS Pathfinder 82 (NB correct name is Dorman’s Island, Whitefield Loch) whilst Explorer 310 reveals more (two, albeit one submerged unless extreme drought)
A blog by a walker who has stomped all over Dumfries and Galloway in all sesons solo and with other ramblers. Many sites visited despite these being in a by the by context. Many photos, highly ‘visually informative’ despite the frequent presence of lines of walkers therein. Good as a reference for routes and permitted access too. Site dormant since May 2015 following his involvement with an online admirer..hope all ok there. For practical purposes Google Glebe Blog and then destination or location you’re interested in. MoG, Torhouskie, Cambret, you name it, he’s probably been. I’ve found this site invaluable and therefore recommend it highly.
Online versions of the DGNHAS Transactions – from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Pics of megalithic sites across Dumfries & Galloway.
‘A record of the cup-and-ring-markings in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. By Fred R. Coles’ in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 29 (1894-95).
Descriptions and diagrams of the groups of carvings at:
Balmae
Knockshinnie
Torrs
Grange
Milton
Galtway and High Banks
Castle Creavie and Bombie
Little Stockerton
Nether Linkens
Newlaw Burn
Senwick
Anwoth
and Hills Stone-Circle
