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A summary archive report of the excavation has been produced for our client Capital Shopping Centres and for the West of Scotland Archaeology Service. The following pages are a summary of this technical report. This summary of technical report is also available as a printer friendly text file (8 kb).

The site was a prehistoric multi-phased, ditched, palisade enclosure. The site measured 76 m east to west and 60 m north to south. It comprised three large ditches, eight structures including at least four roundhouses, and numerous palisades. Recovered artefacts included pottery, coal discs (interpreted as bracelet rough-outs), rubber stones, hammer stones and lithics.

Click on the links below to find out more about various aspects of the site

Ditches
Palisades
Structures
Artefacts

Environmental Record