Open AccessThe excavation of Bankhead homestead, Darvel, Ayrshire
Author(s) -
Alastair Hendry
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
scottish archaeological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1755-2028
pISSN - 1471-5767
DOI - 10.3366/saj.2019.0108
Subject(s) - excavation , archaeology , pottery , foundation (evidence) , geology , ancient history , geography , history
The excavation at Bankhead Farm, Darvel, tested (a) the local tradition of the existence of a stone castle on site and (b) the undocumented story that the local archaeological society had excavated the site in the 1920's. The castle story was disproved but more than one third of the site had clearly been disturbed. The untouched area revealed the foundation trenches of two palisaded roundhouses, one of which yielded Roman pottery of Antonine date.