Townhead Settlement
The Neolithic settlement of Townhead lay beneath the modern cemetery and adjoining St Mary's Chapel on the southern outskirts of Rothesay , parallel to the west side of the road from Rothesay to Kingarth in Argyll and Bute , Scotland .
A number of finds were made on the site in the 1910s and 1920s. A polished stone ax and a hand mill with a grater are in the local museum. The ceramic finds consist of Neolithic Rinyo I (Rinyo-Clacton), Skara Brae and Beacharra goods. Pottery, reminiscent of the Abingdon style in southern Great Britain, was named Rothesay ware by the excavator. The shards of the Rothesay ware were connected with hazelnut shells, charcoal and bone fragments. According to JG Scott, the C14 method dates these finds to around 2120 BC. Chr.
Fireplaces and the remains of shallow trenches were found in a disused gravel pit. Several post holes were found during excavations in 1929.
A few hundred yards away are the remains of St. Mary's Holy Well.
literature
- Stuart Piggott: The Neolithic cultures of the British Isles: a study of the stone-using agricultural communities of Britain in the second millenium BC. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521077818
- JG Scott: “A Radiocarbon Date for a West Scottish Neolithic Settlement” in Antiquity 42 (168) 1968, p.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 49 ′ 41 ″ N , 5 ° 3 ′ 24.4 ″ W.