Get e-book alerts
Sign up here to receive email alerts when new e-books are published.
The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-East Scotland
Keyword(s):
stone circles; ring cairns; fieldwalking survey; landscapes; cremation burial; archaeoastronomy; recumbent stones
Location(s):
Tarland, Keig, Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Period(s):
Chalcolithic; Bronze Age
Synopsis
This volume presents the result of three excavations and two field walking surveys in Aberdeenshire. They were intended to shed new light on the character, chronology and structural development of the distinctive recumbent stone circles which are such a feature of north-east Scotland. Although the monuments share certain elements with other traditions of prehistoric architecture, and, in particular, with the Clava Cairns of the inner Moray Firth, no excavations at these sites had been published since the 1930s and their wider contexts had not been investigated by field survey. The new project took advantage of techniques which had not been used before, including pollen analysis and soil micromorphology, in an attempt to interpret these monuments in their wider chronological and geographical contexts. In that respect this work was the sequel to an earlier investigation of the Clava Cairns.
Chapters
-
Front matter
-
The origins and objectives of the project
-
Excavations at Tomnaverie
-
Excavations at Cothiemuir Wood and Aikey Brae
-
The result of Fieldwalking at Tarland and Castle Forbes
-
The implications of the project
-
References
-
Index
Published
December 15, 2023
Categories
Copyright (c) 2023 Richard Bradley (Author); Tim Phillips, Alison Sheridan, Angela Boyle, Stephen Lancaster, Donald Davidson, Ian Simpson, Brian Matthews, Peter Brewer, Sharon Arrowsmith, Chris Ball, Catherine Chisham, Petra Dark, Donald Davidson, Stephen Lancaster (Contributor); Ian Simpson; David Trevarthen (Contributor)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Details about this monograph
ISBN-13 (15)
9781908332325
Date of first publication (11)
2005
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
