Milestones have been around since Roman times, but their heyday really began in the 1700s. They were designed not only to inform travellers of directions and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule. At the height of their era, there were 20,000 miles of roads with milestones across Britain.

A set of Technical Notes from community archaeology skills training workshops.

The project assessed the evidence for the history of Barhill Wood, identifying that woodland existed there in the late medieval period, with a subsequent period of woodland absence, before tree cover was reintroduced as part of estate-wide plantations in the late 18th century.

Prepared as part of the Galloway Glens Can You Dig It scheme, these notes summarise some of the historic archaeological excavations to have taken place in the Galloway Glens area.