Last Scheduled day of the dig although we may finish before this date depending on our progresses.
We finished digging on Saturday and spent most of the day packing and preparing to leave - by now everbody should be home and enjoying the luxeries of hot baths and warm beds. I'm currentley back in Salisbury preparing to tidy up the web site and trying to convince four cats that I'm not going away again and I don't need any help typing. Over the next couple of days I'll be adding further photos of the site, plans and other information about the dig. Since this was the last dig at Dunragit I've also got a long list of thank you's to add. If you'd like to add any comments about the last four years of excavations here at Dunragit, the web site, the students or even the "Rat" please e-mail me and I'll add them to this final page.
Cheers Dave

Dunragit Village Hall

Thanks
 

A thank you to everyone who has helped with the project this year. First and foremost, our thanks to the Mackie family, for letting us excavate on their land again at short notice.At Forest Enterprise, our thanks Rob Soutar (Forest District Manager) and Tim Yarnell (archaeologist) for their help and support for our work on the mound.  At Historic Scotland, thanks to Deirdre Cameron, Rod McCullagh and Patrick Ashmore, and to Matt Ritchie, now moved on to pastures new at Cadw.  Thanks to Mrs Maternaghan for her help with the village hall, and to Anne Haddow at Community Services in Dumfries and Galloway Council for making the arrangements.  We're very grateful to John Pickin at Stranraer Museum for his enduring interest in the project,and for letting us loose on the museum collections out of hours.  Thanks as ever to Adam and Boyd MacIntosh at Luce Bay Plant Hire for being able to arrange almost anything at the drop of a hat.Thanks to both Diana Henry and Jane Murray for their detective work tracing the Broadfoot family.  More generally, thanks to all of the inhabitants of Dunragit and Droughduil for putting up with us over the past four years, and to all of the staff and students for their hard work.
Julian Thomas
 

And our thanks to everyone who has helped over the last four years including Nicola Hendry, Gordon Logan. Alan Mcfarlane, Jane Bran,Ros Toynbee, Trevor Cowie, Alastair Penman (and the whole Botel Bailey crew) evryone at Historic Scotland involved in the project., Thanks to all at Southampton University who initially helped with the project and hosted the web site. Thanks to Manchester University for its continuing support and current hosting of the web site.

Special thanks to all the local services we used including the Leisure Centere, Laundrette numerous pubs in the area.

Web site help and Corrections
Henriette Heeren Hummel
 
 

Site Managers Supervisors Chefs.etc
Matt Leivers, Chris Fowler,Julia Roberts, Rick Peterson,Ian Heath, Erica Gittins, Jacquie Mulville, Helen Lewis,Kenny Bropthy, Catherine Parker, David Apsden, Stephen George, Anne Pangbourne, Ange Brennan, Hannah Smith, Kirstene Miller, Steven Matthews

Students

1999

  Louise Robbin, Dave Robinson, Kerry Tyler, David Brown, Helen Joyner, Jemma Pyne, Paul Everill, Becky Ashwin, Andrew Brown, David Brown, Isabelle Fawkner-Corbett, Jeniffer Gray, Tristian Guy-Dewen, Lisa Hill, Kathryn Jones, James O'Keefe, Anne Pangbourne, Luke Parker, Stephen Rollet, Nicky Stecker, Alexander Sutton, Rowan Williams, Thomas Woolmer, Charlotte John, Rachael Gumm, Stephen George, Richard Sims,  Barbara Brayshay,  Sue Pitt, Ingereth Macfarlane, Lauren Robbins, Morag Thomas, Kenny Bropthy 
2000
Marcus Brittain,Rachel Gumm, Saracha Brand, Emily Harrington,Stephen George, Anne Pangbourne, Hannah Lawrence, Charlotte Francoz, Seth Priestman, Ruth Taylor,Ionna Antoniado, Becky Ashwin, Ange Brennan, Nicola Marshall, Hayden King, Stuart Pollock, Andrew Ginns, Penny Delve, Emily White, Isabelle Fawkner, Richard Austin, Janet Baxter, Yvette Bekker, Nils Mason, Alice Lucas,Tristan Guy-Dewe, John Tate, Dave Robinson, John Joyce

2001
Janet Baxter, Marcus Brittain, Steven Matthews, Phil Richardson, Mick Miles, John Barton, Alexander Delf, Philip Morgan, Pauline Hennessy, Florida Chance, Philip Gwynne, Greg Shepherd, Rob Law, Andy Ginns, Nicola Marshall, Dave Robinson, Charlotte Coates, Gemma Midlane, James Clarke, Robert Atkins, Steven Grey, Santiago Lopez, Anne Pangbourne, Martin Burges, Vicky Cummings, 
 

2002

if anybodies been missed out contact me and I'll add you to the list