Below is the working bibliography for the South West Scotland Archaeological Research Framework (SWSARF). This page will be updated as the draft chapters are developed. If you think an important reference should be added, please leave a comment, or contact us at scarf@socantscot.org.
The latest draft of the SWSARF bibliography can be downloaded as a Word document here.
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Abercromby, John 1912 A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave Goods, Vols I and II. Clarendon Press: Oxford
Addyman, Tom 2004 ‘Station Brae, Dreghorn (Dreghorn parish), Neolithic settlement with ritualistic component; medieval village‘, Discov Excav Scot, 5, 87-90
Affleck, Thomas L 1983 ‘Smittons (Carsphairn p), Enclosure, Mesolithic flints’, Discov Excav Scot, 5-6
Affleck, Thomas L 1984 ‘Loch Doon Starr 1 (Straiton p)’, Discov Excav Scot, 33-34
Affleck, Thomas L 1985 ‘Loch Doon Starr 1 (Straiton p)’, Discov Excav Scot, 49
Affleck, Thomas L 1986 ‘Excavation at Starr, Loch Doon, 1985’, Glas Archaeol Soc Bull, 22, 10-21
Affleck, Thomas L, Edwards, Kevin and Clarke, Ann 1988 ‘Archaeological and palynological studies at the Mesolithic pitchstone and flint site of Auchareoch, Isle of Arran’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 118, 37-59
Aitken, W Glen and Marshall, Dorothy 1958 ‘Excavation of Burial Chamber at Haylie, Largs, Ayrshire, in 1954’, Ayrshire Archaeol Natur Hist Collect,4, 255-7
Allen, Chris and Edwards, Kevin J 1987 ‘The distribution of lithic materials of possible Mesolithic age on the Isle of Arran‘, Glasg Archaeol J, 14, 19-24
Allen, Michael J, Gardiner, Julie and Sheridan, Alison (eds) 2012 Is There A British Chalcolithic? People, Places and Polity in the Later 3rd Millennium, Prehistoric Society Research Paper 4
Allen, M and Maltby, M 2012 ‘Chalcolithic Land-Use, Animals and Economy – A Chronological Changing Point?’ in Allen, Michael J, Gardiner, Julie and Sheridan, Alison (eds) Is There A British Chalcolithic? People, Places and Polity in the Later 3rd Millennium, Prehistoric Society Research Paper 4: 281-297
Anderson, R S G 1944 ‘A Bronze Age Food Vessel from Finnart Hiil, S Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 78, 137-138
Anon 1797 ‘Statistical Account of Tundergarth’, County of Dumfries Old Statistical Account of Scotland XXIX, 443-446
Ansell, Michael L 1966 ‘Stroanpatrick, scooped settlement; ring cairn’, Discov Excav Scot, 32-33
Ansell, Michael L 1968 ‘Starr and Loch Head’, Discov Excav Scot, 13-24
Ansell, Michael L 1969 ‘Loch Head and Loch Doon, Black Craig‘, Discov Excav Scot, 31
Ascough, P L, Cook, G T, Church, M J, Dugmore, A J, Arge, S V and McGovern, T H 2006 ‘Variability in North Atlantic Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects at c. AD 1000’, The Holocene,16, 131
Arabaolaza, Iraia 2014 ARO10: The cliff hanging cists; Sannox Quarry, Isle of Arran, Archaeology Reports Online
Arabaolaza, Iraia 2017 ‘Prehistoric settlement and ritual activities at Barassie, South Ayrshire’, Scot Archaeol J, 39.1, 35-94
Arabaolaza, Iraia 2019 ‘A Roman Marching Camp in Ayr’, Britannia, 50, 330-349
Arabaolaza, Iraia 2019 ARO33: Beside the River Ayr in prehistoric times: excavations at Ayr Academy, Archaeology Reports Online
Armit, Ian 1999 ‘The Abandonment of Souterrains: Evolution, catastrophe or Dislocation?’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 129, 576-591
Ashmore, Patrick J 1999 ‘Radiocarbon Dating: avoiding errors in dating by avoiding mixed samples’, Antiquity, 73, 124-130
Ashmore, Patrick 2004b ‘A Date List to October 2002 for Early Foragers in Scotland’ inSaville, Alan (ed) 2004 Mesolithic Scotland and its Neighbours: The Early Holocene Prehistory of Scotland, its British and Irish Context, and some Northern European Perspectives: 95-158. Soc Antiq Scot: Edinburgh
Atkinson, John A 2000 ‘Excavations on the Leven, Loudon Hill, Ayrshire, 1993’, Scot Archaeol J, 22.1, 31-68 Atkinson, Richard J C and Piggott, Stuart 1955 ‘The Torrs Chamfrein’, Archaeologia, 96, 197-235
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Bailey, Allyson 1992 ‘An Excavation at Abbot’s Tower, near New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, 1991’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 67, 55-60
Bailey, Laura A 2013 ‘Hullerhirst Quarry and lime kilns, North Ayrshire’, Scot Archaeol J, 34-5 (2012-13), 99-116
Bailie, Warren 2013a ARO6: Preparing for death: excavations at Blairbuy, Dumfries and Galloway in 2012, Archaeology Reports Online
Bailie, Warren R 2013b ‘Recent Investigations at Carzield Roman Fort, Kirkton, Dumfries And Galloway’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc 87, 51-78
Baird, J G A 1914 ‘Account of the excavation of two hut-circles of the Bronze Age, in the parish of Muirkirk, Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 48, 373-381
Baird, J G A 1917 ‘Notice of two burial urns found in the parish of Muirkirk, Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 51, 24-25
Baker, Fiona 2000 ‘Bridge Farm, Machrie Moor, Arran’, Discov Excav Scot, 65
Ballin, Torben B 2000 ‘Classification and description of lithic artefacts. A discussion of the basic lithic terminology’, Lithics, 21, 9-15
Ballin, Torben B 2009 Archaeological Pitchstone in Northern Britain. Characterization and interpretation of an important prehistoric source, British Archaeological Reports British Series 476. Archaeopress: Oxford
Ballin, Torben B and Faithful, John 2009 ‘Gazetteer of Arran pitchstone sources: presentation of exposed pitchstone dykes and sills across the Isle of Arran, and discussion of the archaeological relevance of these outcrops’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 38
Ballin, Torben B, Saville, Alan, Tipping, Richard, Ward, Tam, Housley, Rupert, Verrill, Lucy, Bradley, Matthew, Wilson, Clare, Lincoln, Paul and MacLeod, Alison 2018 Reindeer hunters at Howbirn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Archaeopress: Oxford
Ballin, Torben B 2021 ‘Appendix 12: The Lithic Assemblage’ in Warren, B Dunragit the Prehistoric Heart of Galloway, Archaeopress: Oxford
Banks, Iain 2002 ‘Excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British Enclosure at Woodend Farm, Johnstonebridge, Annandale, 1994 and 1997’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot,130, 223–282
Banks, Iain 2003 ‘The Excavation of Multi-Period Remains Adjacent to the Banked Enclosure of Warden’s Dyke, Gretna’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 78, 37- 60
Banks, Iain 2004 ‘The Excavation of Multi-Period Remains adjacent to the Banked Enclosure of Warden’s Dykes, Gretna: Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic Evidence from the M74’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 78, 37-60
Banks, Iain, Duffy, Paul R J and MacGregor, Gavin 2008 ‘Archaeology of landscape change in South-West Scotland, 6000 BC – AD 1400: excavations at William Grant and Sons distillery, Girvan’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 32
Barber, John W (ed) 1997 The Archaeological Investigation of a Prehistoric Landscape: Excavations on Arran 1978-1981, Scottish Trust for Archaeological Research Monograph 2: Edinburgh
Barber, John W 1999 ‘The Linear Earthworks of Southern Scotland; survey and classification’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 73, 63-164
Barber, John W and Crone, B Anne 1993 ‘Crannogs; a diminishing resource? A survey of the crannogs of southwest Scotland and excavations at Buiston Crannog’, Antiquity, 67, 520-33
Barbour, James 1899a ‘Account of the Excavations at Birrenswark, and Descriptions of the Plans and Sections,’ Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 33, 11-63
Barbour, James 1899b ‘Account of the Excavation of the Camps and Earthworks at Birrenswark Hill in Annandale, undertaken by the Society in 1898’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 33, 219-243
Barbour, James 1902 ‘Notice of the Excavation of the Camp or Earthwork at Rispain in Wigtownshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 36, 621-26
Barbour, James 1905 ‘First Account of the Excavation of Lochrutton Crannog’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 17 parts I and II, 128-36
Barbour, James 1906 ‘Account of Excavations at Lochrutton Lake Dwelling’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 17 part III, 246-54
Barbour, James 1907 ‘Notice of a Stone Fort near Kirkandrews, in the Parish of Borgue, Kirkcudbright, Recently Excavated by James Brown’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 41, 68-80
Barbour, Jordan and McNicol, Dave 2025 ARO59: A Neolithic Monument, Iron Age Homesteads and Early Medieval Kilns: excavations at the Curragh, Girvan, Archaeology Reports Online
Barclay, Gordon 2001 ‘‘Metropolitan’ and ‘Parochial’/’Core’ and ‘Periphery’: A Historiography of the Neolithic of Scotland’, Proc Prehist Soc, 67, 1-18
Barclay, Gordon and Brophy, Kenneth 2007 ‘Preface and Introduction’ in Brophy, Kenneth and Barclay, Gordon Defining a Regional Neolithic: The Evidence From Britain and Ireland: vi-vii. Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 9: Oxford
Barrett, John C 1981 ‘Aspects of the Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland: A Case Study in the Problems of Archaeological Interpretation,’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 111, 205-19
Barrett, John C 1999 ‘An Early Metal Assemblage from Dail na Caraidh, Inverness-shire’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 129, 129-167
Barrowclough, David 2013 ‘The Identification of a Later Bronze Age Metalwork Hoard at Barway, and Consideration of the Association Between Metalwork and Causeways’, Proc Camb Antiq Soc, 102, 29-36
Bate, Dorothea M A 1909 ‘Notice of the Excavation of a Cairn at Mossknowe, on the Kirtle Water, Dumfries-shire’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 43, 165-169
Becket, Alastair and MacGregor, Gavin 2010 ‘Forest grazing and seaweed foddering: early Neolithic Occupation at Maybole, South Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 139, 105-122
Bell, Richard 1905 ‘Forts and their connecting trenches in Eskdalemuir’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 17, 76-85
Birks, Hilary H 1972 ‘Studies in the vegetational history of Scotland II: Two pollen diagrams from the Galloway Hills, Kirkcudbrightshire’, J Eco, 60, 183-217.
Birks, Hilary H 1975 ‘Studies in the vegetational history of Scotland IV. Pine stumps in Scottish blanket peats’, Phil Trans R Soc Lond, B.270, 181-226
Birley, Eric 1938 ‘Excavations at Birrens 1936-7’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 82, 275-347
Birley, Eric 1948 ‘Dumfriesshire in Roman Times’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 25, 132–150
Birley, Eric 1950-1 ‘The Brigantian Problem, and the First Roman Contact in Scotland’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 29, 46-28
Birley, Eric 1957 ‘Dalswinton and the ala Petriana’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc 35, 9–13
Birley, Eric and Richmond, I A 1940 ‘The Roman Fort at Carzield’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 22, 156-163
Birley, Eric and Gillam, J P 1946 ‘The Pottery from the Roman Fort at Carzield’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 24, 68
Bishop, W W and Coope, GR 1976 ‘Stratigraphical and Faunal Evidence for Late-Glacial and Early Flandrian Environments in South West Scotland’ in Gray, Murray and Lowe, John (eds) Studies in the Scottish Lateglacial Environment: 61-88. Pergamon Press: Oxford
Bonsall, Clive and Smith, C 1989 ‘Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic bone and antler artifacts from Britain: First reactions to accelerator dates’, Meso Misc, 10 1, 33-38
Bonsall, Clive and Smith, C 1990 ‘Bone and antler technology in the British Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: the impact of accelerator dating’ in Vermecsch, PM and Van Peer, P (eds) Contributions to the Mesolithic in Europe: 359-68. Leuven University Press: Leuven
Bonsall, Clive and Smith, C 1992 ‘New AMS 14C dates for antler and bone artifacts from Great Britain’, Meso Misc, 13 2, 28-34
Boon, George C 1994 ‘Mould for False Denarii’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, Series III, 69, 21
Booth, Paul 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: 5. The Midlands’, Britannia, 46, 313-327
Booth, Paul 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: 6. East Anglia’, Britannia, 46, 328-333
Booth, Paul 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: 7. Greater London’, Britannia, 46, 333-338
Booth, Paul 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: 8. South-Western Counties’, Britannia, 46, 338-343
Booth, Paul 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: 9. Southern Counties’, Britannia, 46, 344-353
Boyd, Sarah and Hambly, Joanna 2023 Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Loch Ryan, SCAPE
Boyd, Sarah and Hambly, Joanna 2023 Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: South Ayrshire, SCAPE
Boyd, William E 1982 ‘The stratigraphy and chronology of Late Quaternary raised coastal deposits in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, western Scotland’, unpublished PhD thesis. University of Glasgow
Bradley, Richard B 1982 ‘The Destruction of Wealth in Later Prehistory,’ Man, 17, 108-122
Bradley, Richard B 1984 The Social Foundations of Prehistoric Britain, Longman: London
Bradley, Richard B 1985 ‘Consumption, Change and the Archaeological Record’, Edinburgh University Archaeology Department Occasional Paper 13
Bradley, Richard B 1990 ‘The Passage of Arms: An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits’, Cambridge
Bradley, Richard 1993 ‘Altering the Earth: Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe’,Soc Antiq Scot Monograph 8: Edinburgh
Bradley, Richard, Rogers, A, Stuart, R and Watson, A 2016 ‘Maritime Havens in Earlier Prehistoric Britain’, Proc Prehist Soc, 82,125-59
Brann, Martin 2002 Curriestanes Watching Brief. Unpublished commercial report
Breeze, David J 1974 ‘The Roman Fortlet at Barburgh Mill, Dumfriesshire’, Britannia, 5, 130-162
Breeze, David J 2011 ‘Burnswark: Roman siege or army training ground?’, Arch J, 168, 166-80
Breeze, David J and Ritchie, J N Graham 1980 ‘A Roman Burial at High Torrs, Luce Sands, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 55, 77-85
Brophy, Kenneth and Barclay, Gordon 2009 Defining a Regional Neolithic: The Evidence From Britain and Ireland, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 9: Oxford
Brophy, Kenneth 2016 ‘On Ancient Farms: A Study of Neolithic Potentially Domestic Structures in Lowland Scotland’ in Brophy, Kenneth, MacGregor, Gavin and Ralston, Ian (eds) The Neolithic in Mainland Scotland: 200-35. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh
Brown, Craig J, Fernández-Götz, Manuel, Cartwright, R, Reid, John H and Nicholson, Andrew 2025 ‘Assessing ancient conflict landscapes through KOCOA analysis: the case of Burnswark hillfort (SW Scotland)’, J Conflict Archaeology, 1-26
Brown, M A and Blin-Stoyle 1959 ‘A Sample Analysis of British Middle and Later Bronze Age Material, Using Optical Spectroscopy’ Proc Prehist Soc, 25, 188-208
Brűck, Joanna 2001 ‘Body Metaphors and Technologies of Transformation in the English Middle and Late Bronze Age.’ In Brűck, J (ed) Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation: 149-160. Oxford
Bryce, James 1863 ‘Account of Excavations Within the Stone Circle of Arran’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 4, 499-524
Burnham, Barry C, Hunter, Fraser and Fitzpatrick, Andrew P 2003 ‘Roman Britain in 2002: I. Sites Explored’, Britannia 34, 293-359
Bryce, Thomas 1902 ‘On the Cairns of Arran – a Record of Explorations with an Anatomical Description of the Human Remains discovered’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 36, 74-181
Bryce, Thomas 1903 ‘On the Cairns of Arran – a Record of further Explorations during the Season of 1902’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 37, 36-67
Bryce, Thomas 1909 ‘On the Cairns of Arran, No. III. With a Notice of a Megalithic Structure at Ardenadam, on the Holy Loch’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 43, 337-370
Burgess, Colin B 1974 ‘The Bronze Age’ in Renfrew, Colin (ed) British Prehistory: A New Outline, London
Burgess, Colin B and Colquhoun, Ian 1988 The Swords of Britain Prähistorische Bronzefunde IV
Burl, Aubrey 1979 The Stone Circles of the British Isles, Yale University Press: London
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- Caldwell, David H, Ewart, Gordon, Triscott, Jonathan, Cullen, Irene S, Franklin, Julie A, Hunter, Fraser and Paterson, Leonie 1998 ‘Auldhill, Portencross’, Archaeol J, 155(1), 22-81
Callander, J Graham 1911 ‘Notice of the discovery of two vessels of clay on the Culbin Sands, the first containing wheat and the second from a kitchen-midden, with a comparison of the Culbin Sands and the Glenluce Sands and of the relics found on them’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 45 (1910 – 11), 158-181
Callander, J Graham 1921 ‘A Bronze Age Hoard from Glen Trool, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 55, 29-37
Callander, J Graham 1923 ‘Scottish Bronze Age Hoards’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 57, 123-166
Callander, J Graham 1923-4 ‘Dumfriesshire in the Stone, Bronze and Early Iron Ages’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, Series III, 11, 97-119
Callander, J Graham 1927 ‘Cinerary urns from Seamill, West Kilbride’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 61, 246-251
Callander, J Graham 1933 ‘A collection of prehistoric relics from the Stevenston Sands, Ayrshire, and other objects in the National Museum’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 67, 26-34
Cameron, Kirsty 2000 Monkton, Prestwick. Archaeological Evaluation. Phase 2: Trial trenching and Test Pitting. Unpublished commercial report. Centre for Field Archaeology
Campbell, D B 2003 ‘The Roman siege of Burnswark’, Britannia 34, 19-33
Carey, Giles 2013 Discovering Dumfries & Galloway’s Past: A Report, unpublished report by University of Glasgow
Cavers, Graeme 2010 Crannogs and Later Prehistoric Settlement in Western Scotland British Archaeological Reports British Series 510
Cavers, Graeme, Crone, Anne, Engl, Robert, Fouracre, Lynne, Hunter, Fraser, Robertson, Jackaline and Thoms, Jennifer 2011 ‘Refining Chronological Resolution in Iron Age Scotland: Excavations at Forman’s Island Crannog, Dumfries and Galloway’ J Wet Archaeol, 10, 71-108
Cavers, Graeme and Humble, Jamie 2020 ‘Excavations at an Iron Age Dun at High Milton, Craigoch, Rhins of Galloway’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 94, 51-65
Cessford, Craig 1994 ‘The Borgue Armour and the Dumfriesshire Spangenhelm’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 69, 73-80
Chapman, Evan M 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2014: I. Sites Explored 1. Wales’, Britannia 46, 281-286
Chapman, Evan M 2015 ‘Roman Britain in 2016: I. Sites Explored 1. Wales’, Britannia 48, 319-321
- Chapman, Evan M, Hunter, Fraser, Wilson, Pete and Booth, Paul 2010 ‘Roman Britain in 2009: I. Sites Explored’, Britannia, 41, 341-408
- Chapman, Evan M, Hunter, Fraser, Wilson, Pete and Booth, Paul 2011 ‘Roman Britain in 2010: I. Sites Explored’, Britannia 42, 319-398
Cherry, P J and Cherry, J 1997 ‘Two Late Mesolithic Sites in the Luce Bay area’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 72, p109
Childe, Vere Gordon and Graham, Angus, 1942-3 ‘Some notable prehistoric and medieval monuments recently examined by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 77, 31-49
- Childe, V Gordon and Low, Alexander 1945 ‘An Unusual Cinerary Urn from Droughdool, near Dunragit, Wigtownshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 79, 168-70
- Childe, V Gordon 1946 Scotland Before the Scots: Being the Rhind Lectures for 1944, London
Christison, David 1891 ‘A General View of the Forts, Camps, and Motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish Motes’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 25, 198–256
Christison, David 1893 ‘The Prehistoric Forts &c. of Ayrshire,’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 27, 381–405
Christison, David, Barbour, J and Anderson, J 1899 ‘Account of the excavation of the camps and earthworks at Birrenswark Hill in Annandale, undertaken by the Society in 1898’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 33, 198-249
Clarke, David L 1970 Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland Vols. 1 and 2, Cambridge
Clarke, J 1951 ‘Excavations at Milton (Tassiesholm) in season 1950’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 28, 199-221
Clarke, J 1953 ‘Upper Nithsdale and westwards in Roman times’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 30, 111-20
Clarke, J and Webster, A B 1955 ‘Carronbridge – 1953-54 Interim Report’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 32, 9-34
Clarke, J and Wilson, A 1960 ‘The road into Ayrshire. (1) The fortlet at Bankhead, Kirkconnel’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 37, 136-43
Clare, T 2009 ‘No-man’s Land Re-visited: Some Patterns in the Neolithic of Cumbria’ in Brophy, Kenneth and Barclay, Gordon Defining a Regional Neolithic: The Evidence From Britain and Ireland: 78-91. Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 9: Oxford
Clarke, William B 1875 ‘Notice of Excavations in the Borness Cave in the Summer of 1874. Supplementary to Previous Notice. With Plans and Photographs,’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 11, 305-309
Clarke, William B 1876 ‘Notice of Excavations in the Borness Cave in the Summer of 1874’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 11, 305-9
Clarke, William B 1878 ‘Final Report on the Borness Exploration’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 12, 669-81
Clarke, J and Webster, A B 1954 ‘Carronbridge 1953-54: Interim report’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 32, 9-34
Close Brooks, John 1983 ‘Rispain Camp: The Enamelled Bronze Object,’ Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc Series III 58, 47-51
Cochran-Patrick, R W 1872 ‘Notice of some antiquities recently discovered in North Ayrshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 9, 385-87
Cochran-Patrick, R W 1878 ‘Note on some explorations in a tumulus called the “Courthill” in the parish of Dalry and the county of Ayr’, Archaeol Hist Coll Ayrshire and Wigtonshire, 1, 55-60
Cochrane-Patrick, R W 1880 ‘Ayrshire Duns (No. 1 Dunvin),’ Archaeol Hist Coll Rel Count Ayr Wigton Volume II, 109-110
Coles, Diana 2005 ‘In a Quiet Watered Land. The Cree Valley: Neolithic Chambered Cairns and Early Farmers’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 79, 25-46
Coles, John M 1962 ‘Scottish Late Bronze Age Metalwork: Typology, Distribution and Chronology’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 93, 16-134
Coles, John M 1964 ‘New Aspects of Mesolithic Settlement in South-West Scotland’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 41, 67-98
Coles, John M 1965 ‘Bronze Age Metalwork in Dumfries and Galloway’ Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 42, 16-134
Coles, John M 1966a ‘Scottish Middle Bronze Age Metalwork’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 97, 82-156
Coles, John M 1966b ’A “Bann point” from Dumfriesshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 43, 147
Coles, John M 1971 ‘Scottish Early Bronze Age Metalwork’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 101, 1-110
Coles, Frederick R 1891 ‘The Motes, Forts, and Doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (Part I),’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 25, 352–396.
Coles, Frederick R 1892 ‘The Motes, Forts, and Doon of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire (Part II) ’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 26, 117-170
Coles, Fred R 1893 ‘The Motes, Forts, and Doons in the East and West Divisions of the Stewartry of Galloway’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 27, 97-182
Coles, Fred R 1895 ‘A Record of the Cup and Ring Markings in the Stewartry of Galloway’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 29, 67-91
Coles, Diana, Sheridan, Alison and Begg, Crane 2011 ‘Excavation and Recording of Three Sites at Knocknab on Torrs Warren, West Freugh’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 85, 17-52
Collingwood, R G 1927 ‘Burnswark reconsidered’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 13, 46-58
Condry, J and Ansell, Michael 1978 ‘The Excavation of a Hut-Circle at Moss Raploch, Clatteringshaws’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 55 (1977-78), 105-113
Cook, Martin 2006 ‘Excavations of a Bronze Age Roundhouse and associated Palisade Enclosure at Aird Quarry, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries and Galloway’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 80, 9-27
Cormack, William F 1956-7 ‘Recent Finds at Burnswark’ Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist and Antiq Soc, Series III, 36, 185
Corcoran, J X W P 1963 ‘Excavation of a Chambered Cairn at Mid Gleniron Farm, Wigtownshire (Interim Report)’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 41 (1962-63), 99-110
Corcoran, J X W P 1968 ‘Excavations at Mid Gleniron Farm, Wigtownshire, 1963-66’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 45, 73-79
Corcoran, J X W P 1969a ‘Excavation of Two Chambered Cairns at Mid Gleniron Farm, Glenluce, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 46, 29-90
Corcoran, J X W P 1969b ‘Excavation of Two Burial Cairns at Mid Gleniron Farm, Glenluce, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 46, 91-99
Cormack, William, F 1960 ‘Further surface finds at Burnswark’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc,8, 190
Cormack, William F 1963 ‘Prehistoric site at Beckton, Lockerbie’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 41, 111-15
Cormack, William F 1965 ‘Burial Site at Kirkburn, Lockerbie’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 96, 107-135
Cormack, William F 1968 ‘A Burial Cairn in Luce Sands, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 45, 240-241
Cormack, William F 1970 ‘A Mesolithic site at Barsalloch, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 47, 63-80
Cormack, William F 1981 ‘A Corn-Drying Kiln at Airylick, Port William’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 56, 91-99
Cormack, William F 1983 ‘A Flint Blade from Redkirk Point, Dumfriesshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 56, 92
Cormack, William F 1995 ‘Barhobble, Mochrum, Excavation of a Forgotten Church Site in Galloway’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 70
Cormack, William F and Coles, John M 1968 ‘A Mesolithic site at Low Clone, Wigtownshire’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 45, 44-72
Corrie, A J, Clarke, W B and Hunt, A R 1875 ‘On a Cave Containing Bones and Objects of Human Workmanship, at Borness, Kirkcudbrightshire’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 10, 476-507
Corrie, J M 1926-8 ‘Kirkcudbrightshire in the Stone, Bronze and Early iron Ages,’ Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Arch Soc, Series III 14, 272-296
Corrie, J M 1928 ‘Notes on Scottish Bronze Rapiers, on an Incense-cup from Kirkcudbrightshire, and a Bronze Chisel from Dumfriesshire,’ Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 62, 138-152
Corser, P 1982 ‘Platform-buildings: Medieval and later settlements in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire’, Scot Arch Rev 1, 38-44
Cowie, Trevor G, Masters, Lionel J and Harman, M 1981 ‘An Urn Burial from Burnfoot Plantation Dowglen Hill, Westerkirk’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 56, 31-37
Cowie, Trevor G 1988 Magic Metal: Early Metalworkers in the North-east, Aberdeen
Cowie, Trevor G 1996 ‘Torrs Warren, Luce Sands, Galloway: a report on archaeological and palaeoecological investigations undertaken in 1977 and 1979’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 71, 11-105
Cowie, Trevor 2004 ‘Special Places for Special Axes? Early Bronze Age Metalwork from Scotland in its Landscape Setting’ in Shepherd Ian A G and Barclay Gordon J (eds) Scotland in Ancient Europe: The Neolithic and Early bronze Age of Scotland (Edinburgh): 247-262
Cowie, Trevor 2005 ‘The Pottery’ in Parry, J 2005, ‘Excavations of a Bronze Age Barrow at Kerricks Farm near Duncow’, Trans Dum Gall Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 79, 71-89
Cowie, Trevor, Pickin, John and Wallace, Colin 2011 ‘Bog Bodies in Scotland: Old Finds, New Records In,’ J Wet Archaeol, 10.1, 1-45
Cowley, Dave C 2009: ‘Early Christian cemeteries in SW Scotland’, in Murray, J. (ed.) St Ninian and the Earliest Christianity in Scotland, Oxford, 43-56
Cowley, Dave, Ferndández-Götz, Manuel, Rummel, Christoph, Halliday, Strat and Hannon, Nick 2022 ‘New Surveys on the Edge of Empire: The Later Prehistoric Landscapes of Southwest Scotland,’ Aerial Archaeology Research Group Newsletter 64
Cressey, Michael, Badger, Samantha 2005 Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Kintyre & Isle of Arran, SCAPE
Cressey, Michael and Toolis, Ronan 1996 Coastal Assessment Survey: Solway North Coast Vol 1: Carrickcarlin Point to Crook of Baldoon, SCAPE
Cressey, Michael and Toolis, Ronan 1996 Coastal Assessment Survey: Solway North Coast Vol 2: Crook of Baldoon to Dalbeattie, SCAPE
Cresset, Michael and Toolis, Ronan 1996 Coastal Assessment Survey: Solway North Coast Vol 3: Port Donnel to Gretna, SCAPE
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