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Description: | Excavated material from Dumbarton Castle. Dig was previously code-named 'AC'.
Includes: Animal bones and teeth, iron and other metal fragments (slag, nails etc., including tin, bronze, copper), wood, pottery, glass fragments, shells, lumps of clay, mortar and daub, burnt material, charcoal and soil samples.
The 1974/1975 excavation was conducted by the Alcocks, who found evidence of 7th century AD activity (a defensive wall structure). This wall was destroyed in a fire in the late 9th century AD (possibly a Viking raid c.870). There were also later fortifications during the Medieval period, and again in the 18th century. Excavated by Leslie Alcock, of Glasgow University Archaeology Department. | Subjects: | Archaeology; History | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Excavated by Leslie Alcock, of Glasgow University Archaeology Department. | Identifier: | H-203 |
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