ARO35: Neolithic pits and Bronze Age settlement at Colinhill, Strathaven

By Beth Spence

With contributions from Torben Bjarke Ballin, Beverley Ballin Smith and Susan Ramsay

Archaeological interventions revealed a Neolithic pit group dating to the mid-fourth millennium BC and two Bronze Age roundhouses dating to the mid-second millennium BC and on lower plateau area, with another group of Neolithic pits located on an upper plateau. Material culture included early Neolithic carinated bowls and middle to later Neolithic Impressed Ware pots, with an unusually large proportion of pitchstone artefacts in the lithic assemblage.

Key words: pit groups, Bronze Age roundhouses, Neolithic pottery, pitchstone artefacts

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