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Research report
Excavations at Birnie, Moray, 2004.
Trial excavations from 1998-2003 showed that Birnie (near Elgin) was the site of an important, long-lived later prehistoric settlement complex and subsequently a medieval village. The later prehistoric site was a local power centre in contact with the Roman world far to the south - as seen most spectacularly in...Hunter, Fraser
Middle Ages, Scotland , Iron Age , Bronze Age, Birnie , Romans , and Antiquities
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Research report
Excavations at Birnie, Moray, 2001.
A further season of excavations in 2001 continued the examination of the unenclosed Iron Age site at Birnie, Moray. Work so far has shown this was an important settlement, inhabited by people of some status who were in contact with the Roman world. In 2000 the bulk of a disturbed...Hunter, Fraser
Middle Ages, Scotland , Iron Age , Birnie , Romans , Bronze Age , and Antiquities
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Research report
Fieldwork at Birnie, Moray, 1998
In 1996 a number of Roman silver coins were discovered by metal detecting at Dykeside, near Birnie, Moray. The findspot lies in an area of a later prehistoric settlement known for cropmarks, on a gravel terrace. It is also within 400 m of Birnie Kirk, one of the earliest Christian...Hunter, Fraser
Scotland, Birnie , Bronze Age , Romans , Antiquities , Iron Age , and Middle Ages