The use and reuse of stone circles : fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications /

"The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recogni...

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Other Authors: Bradley, Richard, 1946- (Editor), Nimura, Courtney (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Excavations at five Scottish monuments
  • The development of the project / Richard Bradley
  • Excavations at Hillhead, Tarland, Aberdeenshire : a recumbent stone circle and its history / Richard Bradley and Amanda Clarke
  • Excavations at Waulkmill, Tarland, Aberdeenshire : a Neolithic pit, Roman Iron Age burials and an earlier prehistoric stone circle / Richard Bradley, Amanda Clarke and Fraser Hunter
  • Croftmoraig stone circle, Perth and Kinross : a reinterpretation in the light of fresh excavation / Richard Bradley
  • The Hill of Tuach, Kintore, Aberdeenshire : the excavation of a small stone circle and henge / Richard Bradley and Amanda Clarke
  • Laikenbuie, Auldearn, Inverness-shire : excavation of an early Iron Age ring cairn and other features / Ronnie Scott and Annette Jack
  • Part Two. The excavated monuments in their wider contexts
  • After the great stone circles / Richard Bradley
  • Histories of reuse / Richard Bradley
  • The extent of variation : four stone circles in Cromar in the light of recent fieldwork / Richard Bradley
  • Croftmoraig : the anatomy of a stone circle / Richard Bradley.