Neolithic domesticity and other prehistoric anomalies
excavations at Laigh Newton, East Ayrshire
Rectangular Building, Pits, Rectilinear Structures, Pottery, Lithics, Plant Remains
Late Iron Age, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, prehistoric
Abstract
A series of archaeological evaluations and excavations at Laigh Newton in East Ayrshire (NGR: NS 5937 3684) revealed evidence for intermittent occupation of this valley terrace between the Mesolithic and the Late Iron Age. The plough-truncated archaeology included the remains of a rectangular building and associated features of the mid-late 4th millennium BC, a more ephemeral structure and related pits of the mid-3rd millennium BC, a charcoal-burning pit of the mid-1st millennium AD and two other rectilinear structures of indeterminate date.