Excavation at Lintshie Gutter Unenclosed Platform Settlement, Crawford, Lanarkshire, 1991

Abstract

Rescue excavation at this Bronze Age field monument near Crawford, Lanarkshire, organized by Historic Scotland ahead of the M74/M6 motorway construction, and financed by Scottish Office Industry Department (Roads Directorate), has revealed a variety of platform structures indicative of some degree of differential use of the buildings.Radiocarbon results obtained from four of the platforms suggest an occupational history running from a possible Late Neolithic date through to the Middle Bronze Age period.An intensive and sustained period of settlement on this north-facing hillside is also indicated from the repair and rebuilding phases recorded on most of the excavated platforms.A large and important domestic Bronze Age pottery assemblage was recovered, which included some vessel types previously found on funerary sites.Environmental data collected from extensive sampling revealed evidence of local woodland exploitation and cultivation of barley in association with the settlement.* c/o Historic Scotland, Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh EH9 1SH Key ____ •?••* Unenclosed Platform Settlement © Settlement Hillfort 0 Earthwork )• Enclosure A Cairn \""^) Cairnfield Burnt Mound ( ) Henge A Enclosed Cremation Cemetery ~| SCALE 1:40000 I/.

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