Sites at Daer gives new clues to Scotland’s history
Biggar Archaeology event
Archaeologists working on pre-historic sites at Daer are discovering further sites within a forestry plantation – revealing new parts of Scotland’s story.
For the first time Biggar Archaeological Group has found colouring substances, used by hunter-gatherers over 6000 years ago.
“Haematite was rubbed on stones to give a bright maroon coloured powder which makes good paint,” explained group leader Tam Ward. “How it was used at Daer is not known but in Denmark, where graves are often found, the skeletons are covered in this stuff.
“The overlap between the hunters and the first farmers has also been found and is causing some excitement.”
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