John Pickin
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Two Polished Flint Knives from Galloway TDGNHAS Series III, 72 (1997), 110(1009.36 KB) |
Bog Bodies from Dumfries and Galloway Quaternary geology, Archaeology (General), Prehistory (General), Iron Age, Bronze Age, Roman and Romano British, Recent, Recent (Social), Antiquarian TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 31(4.91 MB)
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A recent review of the evidence for bog bodies in Scotland has added 14 previously unrecogbised examples to the existing gazeteer. Seven of these 'new discoveries' - actually old finds hidden in local newspaper accounts and antiquarian reports - are fro G |
A Concealed Sock from Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire Recent, Recent (Social), Folklore TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 138(2.63 MB)
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A short article describing the finding of a sock in a recess close to the chimney flue at Mull Cottage, Kirkmaiden. The sock was found to be stuffed with thistles and it is suggested that it may be of 18th century date and concealed to trap spitits: it is |
A Bog Body from Leswalt, Wigtownshire Archaeology (General), Antiquarian TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 140(2.63 MB)
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A short article describing, from newspaper reports, the finding of an unclothed bog-body at Glenhead, parish of Leswalt, in 1852. |
A Grooved Stone Tool from Wanlockhead - Loom Weight or Prehistoric Mining Hammer? Geology, Prehistory (General), Industrial Archaeology TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 141(2.63 MB)
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A short article describing a grooved stone tool from the Wanlockhead area presented to the Society's Museum in 1929. It is considered to represent a form of tool utilised in prehistoric mining activities - parallels are provided from other sites. |
A Neolithic Roughout Axehead from Dunragit Archaeology (General), Neolithic TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 225(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB) |
David F. Devereux and John Pickin Tongland Fish House and the Tongland Salmon Fishery Post-mediaeval archaeology, Recent, Fisheries TDGNHAS Series III, 89 (2015), 35(4.65 MB)
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A Building Record of the Fish House at Tongland was made by the authors in November 2013, prior to the re-development of the building. This revealed the nature of the midnineteenth century structure and reflected its use in relation to the seasonal salmon fishery at the nearby Doachs of Tongland on the River Dee. There is also anecdotal evidence for its operation, which included the dispatch of salmon to distant markets. The fishery closed in the 1930s with the development of the Galloway Hydro-Electric Scheme, but a range of documentary evidence indicates that this was a valuable (and sometimes controversial) fishery, operated as an economic unit from 1642 and probably much earlier. Quite possibly the canons of nearby Tongland Abbey exploited this natural resource from the early thirteenth century, although there is no surviving physical or documentary evidence for this. |
A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway – excavations at Dunragit and Droughduil, 1999–2002 by Julian Thomas TDGNHAS Series III, 89 (2015), 206(4.65 MB) |
A Lake Village in its Landscape: Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries and Galloway by Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone TDGNHAS Series III, 91 (2017), 127(4.71 MB) |