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8000 Years of History

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Tarradale Excavations 2024: The Barns

Added by James McComas on 12 September 2024

Tarradale is certainly a location that keeps on giving archaeologically. This has paid dividends most spectacu...

Tarradale Excavations 2024: A Post-Medieval Wall and an Elusive Distillery

Added by James McComas with Eric Grant on 15 July 2024

In early May 2024 we undertook some limited excavation at Tarradale to see if we could identify a distillery s...

Shell Midden Excavation September / October 2023

Added by Eric Grant on 21 May 2024

In 2017 the Tarradale Through Time project excavated a shell midden (known as site 2B) located on a raised bea...

Tarradale Barrow Cemetery Excavation Video and Forum Thread

Added by James McComas on 09 April 2021

Recently the 25 minute video of the 2019 Barrow Cemetery Excavation was released. It is dedicated to the memor...

TARRADALE THROUGH TIME NOMINATED FOR CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE YEAR: WE NEED YOUR VOTE!

Added by James McComas and Eric Grant on 02 December 2020

TARRADALE THROUGH TIME is delighted to announce that we are on the shortlist for the Current Archaeology maga...

UPDATE & CREATIVE CHALLENGES RESULTS

Added by Eric Grant on 08 March 2020

Previously we outlined some of the results of last autumn’s excavation of the Pictish barrow cemetery in...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Final Day

Added by Eric Grant on 26 September 2019

The last day of the dig was scheduled to be Sunday 15 September, but there was so much going on that we decide...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 18

Added by Anne Coombs and Jonie Guest on 18 September 2019

Interpretation of Pictish barrows at Tarradale by Pat Haynes As the 3rd planned excavation of Tarradale Throug...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 16

Added by James McComas on 15 September 2019

Sunday was Day 16 and we are now into extra time with lots of features still to be investigated across the 3 t...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 11

Added by Anne Coombs on 10 September 2019

Day 11 After a long weekend when the cleaning was completed and sections for more exploration were chosen we ...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 10

Added by Jonie Guest on 09 September 2019

Something a little more unusual today for the blog. The Tower, The Drone or the Plane? All three have been us...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 6

Added by Anne Coombs on 06 September 2019

Day 6 Today a simple site report as we are finishing the first clean back and lots of photos and tomorrow we ...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 5

Added by Jonie Guest on 05 September 2019

Steve gave a site tour first thing this morning before digging commenced. Then the rain came, so a quick retr...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Day 4

Added by Anne Coombs on 04 September 2019

In Trench 1 it was just hard work with very stony ground and very indistinct features. T1 is on the higher gr...

Barrow Cemetery Dig - Opening Weekend

Added by Anne Coombs on 01 September 2019

Three days of preparation last week with a few very tempting patterns in the soil, lovely weather and we were...

Tarradale 2018 Excavation Video: Gilchrist and Balvattie

Added on 17 August 2019

To whet your whistle for the 2019 dig, here is our newly edited video of last year's excavations at Gilchr...

Summer Update and Touring Display

Added by Anne Coombs on 15 June 2019

TTT has been very quiet recently however we have been busy behind the scenes. We have been commissioning post ...

Looking ahead to the Barrow Cemetery Excavation 2019

Added by Eric Grant on 19 May 2019

TARRADALE THROUGH TIME community archaeological project has been surveying and excavating a number of archaeol...

2018 Excavations: Gilchrist and Balvattie

Added by Eric Grant on 12 March 2019

In September 2018 two sites were investigated by TARRADALE THROUGH TIME, a fortified enclosure just west of Gi...

MUIR OF ORD’S EARLIEST SETTLERS

Added by Eric Grant on 10 October 2018

EXCITING NEW REVELATIONS FROM TARRADALE THROUGH TIME PROJECT In the winter 2017 edition of Muir Matters (see o...
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