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Archive from excavations at Ratho Quarry
551 5/10/20
Description Archive from excavations at Ratho Quarry
Collection Records of AOC Archaeology Group, archaeologists, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland
Catalogue Number 551 5/10/20
Category All Other
Scope and Content Archive consists of a data structure report, 1 Film of Colour Prints and 1 box of colour slides
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915803 | General view of the SW corner of site. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915809 | View of the stone setting (1012). | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915810 | Palisade alignments (1012 and 1026) and sunken-featured building. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915811 | View of the sunken featured building, from the N. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915812 | Cluster of loomweights to the N of the sunken-featured building. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915813 | Sections through the S side of the rectilinear structure 1. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915814 | View of the lower rotary quern found in the sunken-featured building. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915815 | Tower view of rectilinear structure 2 in Area 3. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915816 | Palisade feature (3000), ring-ditch fragment (3002) and structure 2 in Area 3. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915817 | View of the sunken-featured building, from the SE. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915818 | View of the palisade feature (3000 and 3001) Area 3 - SE corner of site. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915819 | Urn 1, under laboratory excavation. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915820 | Urn 1. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915821 | A Ratho urn under laboratory excavation. | 1993 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1915822 | A Ratho urn under laboratory excavation. | 1993 | Item Level |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/02 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 37 negatives of Areas 1 and 2. Includes excavation of the ring-ditch, the palisade alignments and rectilinear structure 1. 1-14: Palisade features 1021 and 1026. 15-16: Feature 1030 inside ring-ditch before excavation. 17-18: Loomweight (SF1008) in situ in house occupation layer 1035. 19-22: Stone setting 1012. 23-24: Terminal of ring-ditch 1000D. 25-26: Pit 1011 cut by ring-ditch 1000. 27-28: Feature 1030. 29-31: Loomweights during excavation. 32-33: Section through interior of stone setting 1012. 34-37: General view of structure 1 (2009) and pit group 2003 et al. | 1993 | Batch Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/04 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 37 negatives of Areas 1 and 2. Includes detail of the loomweights and quern, the sunken-featured building and various pits. 0-1: 3 loomweights in NE quadrant of the sunken-featured building. 2-3: Large loomweight in NE quadrant. 4-5: Stones in centre of the sunken-featured building. 6-7: Quern stone 1073. 8-9: Stones of wall? Feature 1039 to the N of the sunken-feature building. 10-11: Fire cracked? stones in the NE quadrant of the sunken-feature building. 12-13: Pit - 2022 & 2021. 14-15: Sub-square feature - 2038 & 2037. 16: Small pit - 2026 & 2025. 17: Pit - 2028 & 2027. 18: Pit - 2014 & 2013. 19: Pit - 2005 & 2004 fully excavated. 20: Pit - 2016 & 2015. 21: Pit - 2018 & 2017. 22: Pit - 2036 & 2035. 23-25: Sections through rectilinear feature 2009 - the S side of structure 1. 26: Pit - 2040 & 2039. 27: Pit - 2048 (& post pipe) 2047. 28: Pit - 2050 & 2049, excavated by GUARD. 29: Pit - 2054 & 2053. 30: Pit - 2048 & 2047. 31: Pit - 2052 & 2051. 32: Pit - 2042 & 2041. 33: Pit - 2046 & 2045. 34: Pit - 2058 & 2057. 35-36: Working shots. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/05 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 37 negatives of Areas 1, 2 and 3. Includes the sunken-featured building and loomweights, various pits, structure 2, a fragment of a second ring-ditch and further palisade trenches. 0-1: Pit - 2054 & 2053. 2-6: Loomweights in the SW quadrant of the sunken building. 7: Pit - 2060 & 2059. 8: Stone setting 2061 before excavation. 9: Pit - 2063 & 2062. 10: Half-section of stone setting 2061 with fill 2068. 11: Pit - 2056 & 2055. 12: Pit - 2065 & 2064. 13: Pit - 2070 & 2069. 14-16: Half sections of adjacent pits - cuts 2001 and 2067 with fills 2000 and 2066. 17-22: Tower views of rectilinear structure 2. 23-25: Working shots - excavation of the sunken-featured building. 26: Kubiena tins in the section of post hole 1046. 27-37: General views of palisade feature (3000), ring-ditch fragment (3002) and structure 2 in Area 3. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/06 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 37 negatives of Areas 1, 2 and 3. Includes the sunken-featured building, the SE palisade feature, the fragment of ring-ditch and various pits. 0-4: Tower shots of sunken-featured building including quernstone and associated features 1038 & 1036. 5-6: Half section of pit - 2071 & 2072. 7-10: Half sections A - D of palisade feature - 3000 & 3001. 11: Half section of the fragment of ring-ditch - 3002 & 3003. 12-13: General views of the palisade feature - 3000 & 3001. 14: Part of structure 2 (2074). 15: Half section of feature - 3004 & 3005 - in baulk. 16: Three persistent drying patches 2075, 2076 & 2077. 17-18: Pebbles 1044 below the quern and surface 1038. 19: Half section of feature - 2079 & 2080. 20: Half section of feature - 3007 & 3006. 21: Half section of feature - 2083 & 2084. 22: ? 23-24: Half-sectioned pit (2081 & 2082) cutting rectilinear feature F2078/2074. 25: Half section of pit - 2085 & 2086. 26: Half section of pit - 3008 & 3009. 27-28: Section at corner of rectilinear feature - 2078 & 2074. 29: Section through pit - 2089 & 2090. 30: Section through pit - 2087 & 2088. 31-32: ? rectilinear feature (2078) or post excavation view of GUARD scoop (1015). 33-36: Sunken-featured building after removal of layer 1035. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/08 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 30 negatives of the cremation urns | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/01 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 38 negatives of Areas 1 and 3. General views of the site before excavation, after stripping and during cleaning. Detail includes shots of ring-ditch 1000, pit 1014, stone setting 1012 and cremation 1008. 1-19: General views of site before excavation and after stripping, plus the holloway leading up to site. 20-21: Non-feature in Area 3. 22-24: Section through ring-ditch 1000. 23-24: Pit 1014 before excavation. 25-34: General views of ring-ditch 1000, stone setting 1012 and tree hole 1013. 35: Stone setting 1012 to the W of the ring-ditch. 36-38: Section through unurned cremation 1008. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/03 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 34 negatives of Areas 1 and 2. Includes excavation of cists and the sunken-featured building. 3-4: Stone setting 1012 post excavation. 5-7: Section and post excavation shots of destroyed cist 2003. 8-9: Oval pit 2005 with fill 2004 in section. 10-23: Tower views of sunken-featured building. 24: Section through small oval feature 2012. 25-30: Views of the sunken-featured building. 31-36: Detail of the loomweight cluster. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/07 | Ratho Quarry excavation archive 37 negatives of Area 1, plus general site views. Includes various pits, palisade alignments and the sunken-feature building. 0-1: Packing stones within pit - 1050 & 1051. 2-5: Working shots. 6: Palisade and intercutting pit - 1057 & 1058. 7-9: Palisade terminals at S - 1022 & 1025. 10: Section through the palisade 1021, 1022 & 1023. 11-13: N end of palisade 1022 & 1025 showing packing 1022 cutting 1025. 14: Cut and fill of inner palisade - 1026 & 1025. 15: Half section of pit - 1065 & 1066. 16: Half section of pit - 1061 & 1062. 17-18: Interface between the floor of the sunken-featured building and natural. 19-36: General shots of the sunken-featured building and of site. | 1993 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | BP 5/05/18 | Tower view of rectilinear structure 2 in Area 3. | 1993 | Item Level |
