• desk-top sources, documentary evidence and databases (e.g. HER, tithe, OS and estate maps, photographs, aerial photographs, satellite images, antiquarians, local collections, RCHME, CBA, English Heritage, CADW, Historic Scotland)

• Aerial photography• field walking and other methods of recovering archaeological material from

the surface• field work, including on-site survey (i.e. landscape, underwater and

environmental survey) sampling strategies (e.g. understanding the uses and limitations of sampling in an archaeological context)

• surveying and standing building survey methods• geoprospection (resistivity, magnetometry, GPR, metal detecting, sonar)• geochemistry (phosphate analysis)

Paper 2:Unit 1 Discovering and recording sites and landscapes

“Desk Top” Archaeology

Tithe map of same area, 1840

Survey of parish by Whyte, 1792

http://digital.nls.uk/directories/index.html

“....desk-based assessment is a programme of assessment of the known or potential archaeological resource within a specified area or site on land, inter-tidal zone or underwater. It consists of a collation of existing written, graphic, photographic and electronic information in order to identify the likely character, extent, quality and worth of the known or potential archaeological resource in a local, regional, national or international context as appropriate.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/understanding-archaeology-of-landscapes/understandingthearchaeologyoflandscapespart1pp1-9.pdf

here

Late 1850s

painting of the old Strathbungo village in the 1820 s, it is made from 2 ′viewpoints combined to give an overview

Tile works

“Hi Jim, I got lots of info on the brick works - too much to post on Facebook so I hope you get this message: First, this from Andrew Downie on Marywood Sq:The 1859 Glasgow PO Directory lists the Titwood brickyard of A & T Hamilton, brick and tile makers, that previously occupied the site. The original feu disposition of 1860 between Sir John Maxwell, and William Stevenson & John McIntyre refers to compensation to be paid to Alexander Hamilton, brickmaker in Glasgow and Thomas Hamilton, brick and tile maker, Auchingray Brick and Tile Works, Carnwrath, since they would be required to vacate the site.

The map puts the brickworks about half way down Marywood Square, or in the back land between it and Queen Square. It probably explains why whenever I dig my garden I hit brick. There was a small branch line that ran from the brickworks to the railway line (on the map), the railway predating the houses of Strathbungo. The line would have passed roughly under my house [52] at the end of Marywood Square.

Case study-A tileworks in the South Side

1820