Dunragit Finds Revealed

Previous Archaeological investigations at Dunragit had led to the are being styled as the 'most important Stone-Age site in Scotland'.....so it was to be expected that the new section of the the A75 to bypass the notorious Dunragit Low Bridge - would unearth some history. No one expected the sheer volume of material that would be found though - including Mesolithic dwellings more than 9000 years old.

excavations at Dunragit

The finds included:

• More than 13,500 Mesolithic flints
• An early Neolithic settlement
• A Bronze Age cemetery complex
• Early Bronze Age stone-lined cist burials with grave goods including ceramic food vessels, a flint knife, and two rare jet bead necklaces
• Bronze Age cremation urns and pottery sherds
• Six Iron Age roundhouses and Iron Age pottery

More on this story at the BBC website