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The stone circles of northeast Scotland in the light of excavation
Abstract
The stone circles of northeast Scotland (Figure 1) take a most distinctive form. On one level, they are made up of structural elements that are widely distributed in Britain: they are built from raw materials that had been selected for their colour and texture; the monoliths are graded in height towards the southwest and may have been aligned on the moon (Burl 2000). On another level, they have a character all of their own. They are known as ‘recumbent’ stone circles because their most massive component is a large flat block which is bracketed by two tall pillars or ‘flankers’ (Burl 2000: 215–33).
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“Recent excavations by Bradley et al. (2002) suggest that the construction of the actual stone circles at these sites occured relatively late in a long sequence of activities that typically included the enclosure of a preexisting cremation pyre in a low cairn.”
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- Childe, 1934, Final report on the excavation of the stone circle at Old Keig, Aberdeenshire, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 68, 372, 10.9750/PSAS.068.372.393 · DOI
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- Bradley, R., Ball, C., Croft, S., & Phillips, T.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2002-09
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 293
- Pages
- 840-848
- ISSN
- 0003-598X
- 1745-1744
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- 3
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- en
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