{"id":246,"date":"2025-06-11T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:14:16","slug":"the-end-of-the-road-for-the-dunragit-assemblage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"The end of the road for the Dunragit assemblage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" style=\"width:336px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition4-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition4-1-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The final stage of the Dunragit excavations is the exhibition of its key artefacts and their preservation as a resource for future research and investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following post-excavation analysis and publication, the assemblage from Dunragit was reported to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasuretrovescotland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Treasure Trove Unit<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;who deal with all the daily reporting of finds across Scotland, delegated from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltr.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Kings and Lords Treasurer\u2019s Remembrancer (KLTR)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition3.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition3-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition3-624x469.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Dunragit Display, Stranraer Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The assemblage was then considered by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasuretrovescotland.co.uk\/about\/safap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel (SAFAP)<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and allocated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dgculture.co.uk\/venue\/stranraer-museum\/\"><strong>Stranraer Museum<\/strong><\/a> in 2024. The assemblage was delivered to the museum by GUARD Archaeology following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/DunragitMonograph.html\"><strong>publication<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; of the results, which are free to download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assemblage is now on display in Stranraer Museum, showing off the ornate Jet jewellery recovered from elite early Bronze Age burial pits along with cremation urns and other select items from the assemblage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" style=\"width:623px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Details about the Jet jewellery from Dunragit, Stranraer Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-251\" style=\"width:329px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dunragit-exhibition5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Reading corner, Stranraer Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The results of the analyses have enabled us to better understand the archaeology, and the nature of past human occupation across eight millennia in this area of south-west Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a reading corner set aside with copies of the Dunragit booklet means that anyone can delve into the details of what was recovered during the Dunragit excavations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final stage of the Dunragit excavations is the exhibition of its key artefacts and their preservation as a resource for future research and investigation. Following post-excavation analysis and publication, the assemblage from Dunragit was reported to the&nbsp;Treasure Trove Unit&nbsp;who deal with all the daily reporting of finds across Scotland, delegated from the&nbsp;Kings and Lords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/DunragitBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}