The Silicon Tribesman

'The Hidden Chapel', Monreith, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway

The Kirkinner 10th Century CE 'Disc-Headed' Cross, Kirkinner, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway

'Cairnholy I' Neolithic Chambered Cairn, nr. Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway

I wasn't sure it was a great idea to visit this site just before a thunderstorm broke but glad I did.

Small-scale archaeological evaluations at Brighouse Bay have uncovered localized, albeit fragmentary, evidence of later prehistoric and Iron Age occupation. Nearby coastal defensive earthworks and promontory sites—such as Borness Batteries overlooking the bay—typify the defensive and settlement patterns of second-millennium and first-millennium BCE communities along the Solway coast. Unusually, the local dune sites also yielded unusual post-prehistoric/Romano-British artifact depositions, including a rare counterfeit coin-casting die pointing to indigenous manipulation of Roman-era trade networks.

Dundrennan Abbey, 12th Century CE, Dundrennan, nr. Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway

Dundrennan Abbey, 12th Century CE, Dundrennan, nr. Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway

Spindle Whorls, Iron Age to Early Medieval, Dumfries Museum, Dumfries and Galloway

Bronze Age Beaker and Cist Burial, Mainsriddle, 1600 BCE, Dumfries Museum, Dumfries and Galloway

Torhouse Prehistoric Stone Row, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway

Kirkcudbright 12th Century Castle Earthworks and the Dee Estuary, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Iron Age Equine Strap Junctions, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Bronze Age Spear and Reconstruction, 'Scotland's First Warriors' Exhibition, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Decorated Bronze Age Pin from Loch Broom (Highland), 'Scotland's First Warriors' Exhibition, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Bronze Age Shield, 'Scotland's First Warriors' Exhibition, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Two Neolithic Human Crania With Blunt Force Trauma, 'Scotland's First Warriors' Exhibition, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Neolithic Petrosphere, Elgin, Moray, 'Scotland's First Warriors' Exhibition, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh