n.a. (1998). The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour. Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside. In: n.e. The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour. Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside | ||||
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The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside | ||||
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series | ||||
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13 | ||||
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145 | ||||
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This volume describes two monuments which form part of the rich Neolithic presence in Tayside, now Perthshire and Angus. The long linear monument of the Cleaven Dyke, whose bank and flanking ditches run for 2 km across the Perthshire countryside was for some centuries confidently identified as a Roman construction, linked to the nearby legionary fortress of Inchtuthil. The authors' surveys and excavations together with reinterpretation of earlier work, have relocated it decisively in its correct place, built as part of the Neolithic cursus monument tradition sometime around the late 5th-mid/late 4th millennium cal BC. The volume presents the detailed results of their study, in particular the segmented nature of the Dyke's construction, together with palaeoenvironmental background to the area and a survey of the range of cursus monuments and related barrow forms. In addition, the survey and excavation of the nearby rectilinear timber enclosure of Littleour is described and placed in its context of similar structures, both roofed and unroofed, in the late 4th to early 3rd millennia cal BC; its use a millennium later for the disposal within pits of lithics and Grooved Ware again raises questions of the nature and significance of late Neolithic ceremonial practices. | ||||
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1998 | ||||
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090390313X | ||||
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