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Forest grazing and seaweed foddering: early Neolithic occupation at Maybole, South Ayrshire

@inproceedings{Becket2009ForestGA,
  title={Forest grazing and seaweed foddering: early Neolithic occupation at Maybole, South Ayrshire},
  author={Alastair Becket and G Laird MacGregor and Ann Clarke and Paul R. Duffy and Nyree Finlay and Jennifer Miller and Alison Sheridan},
  year={2009}
}

• A. Becket, G. MacGregor, +4 authors A. Sheridan
• Published 2009
• Environmental Science

A group of Early Neolithic features, probably related to the cooking of food, was excavated by
Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) near Maybole, South Ayrshire.
Particularly significant was the wide range of finds that had been deposited within some of the
features, including carbonised ovicaprid (probably goat), faecal pellets, a fragment of a Group
VI Great Langdale stone axehead, burnt human bone, a fragmented cylindrical stone object, an
assemblage of struck lithics (including pitchstone), and an assemblage of Carinated Bowl pottery.
Several features also contained considerable amounts and varieties of carbonised botanical
remains, providing a broader insight into the landscape where these features were found. Analysis
of these remains suggests that there had been a short phase of occupation, radiocarbon dated to
3780–3650 cal bc.