Dighty Valley - Archaeology Data Service

WESTS IDE
The foresters on Castlemilk Estate picked up a carved stone
object of uncertain date and a scraper in pink flint, not associated.
On inspection of the area, which has been planted out, several more
worked and utilized flakes were found associated with about a
dozen turf " hut circles."
HE I THAT
A polished stone axe 5£ ins. long (? Langdale) which was
found several years ago on this farm by Mr Douglas Burnie has
now been handed in.
From A. E. Truckell, Dumfries Burgh Museum
A long, patinated, flint blade, was found in an orchard at
Gretna in soil disturbed by the laying of a 1914-18 War sewer, at
the top of the coastline of the time of the last marine transgression.
Nodules of imported flint were found eroding out of the
present shoreline at a point half-a-mile below Glencaple NS/994681
and at Redkirk Point near the head of the Solway NS/301650.
Six pieces—two blades and four chips—of blue-grey chert
were picked up in a field on Townfoot farm half-a-mile below
Glencaple on the Nith estuary, at a point ISO yards inland from the
top of the raised-beach coastline NS/998679.
A fine mediaeval aquamanile found in Dumfries was presented
to the Museum: the precise time and spot of finding are not known
but it seems to have come from the High Street area.
A Groat of David II in good condition was found by potatopickers
in the field next to Caerlaverock Castle.
Some 60 pieces of mediaeval pottery covering in style and
glaze the 13th to 16th centuries, plus two glazed pebbles, have been
found in adjacent gardens at Langlands, Dumfries, on a gentle
ridge some 200 yards outside the Tounheid Port of mediaeval
Dumfries. The presence of the glazed pebbles suggests that just as
forges, a high fire risk, were concentrated around the Tounheid
Port, so pottery kilns (potters are attested in the town until the
1630's) were set on the Creezy ridge outside the Port.
Two large pieces of late mediaeval pottery have been found
during building work in the lower part of Church Street, on the
West side of the Nith, in the area where " Brigend of Dumfries "
developed from the 1560's onwards.
Two pieces of probably 13th - 14th century pottery have been
found on exposed soil just behind Greyfriars' Church, Dumfries.
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