This document discusses various methods used in archaeological research, including desk-based research of existing records, maps, and photographs; aerial photography; field walking; field work such as landscape and building surveys; geophysical prospection techniques like resistivity and magnetometry; and geochemical analysis. It provides examples of the types of documents that may be used in desk-based research, such as maps from 1792 and 1840, as well as paintings and photographs. The document also presents a case study of a tileworks that previously occupied the site of some houses in Strathbungo in the late 1850s, explaining how brick fragments are still found in gardens today from this former industrial site.

1. • 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

2. “Desk Top” Archaeology

3. Tithe map of same area, 1840
Survey of parish by Whyte, 1792

8. “....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.

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

14. Late 1850s

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

16. “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

20. 1820