MacKie, E. W. and David, A. (1991). New light on Neolithic rock carving: the petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire. Glasgow Archaeological Journal. Vol 15, pp. 125-155.
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New light on Neolithic rock carving: the petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire | |||
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Glasgow Archaeological Journal | |||
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Glasgow Archaeological Journal | |||
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15 | |||
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125 - 155 | |||
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Divided into two sections. Firstly `The archaeology of the site' by E W MacKie (125-50) details a fresh recording of the carved rock surfaces undertaken in 1984. On the two carved outcrops are many cup-marks (some with tails) and a variety of cups-with-rings, mostly with short tails. The site is the first which can be shown to have been carved in two distinct phases, far apart in time, and the first at which the carving (as opposed to the re-use) of some of the symbols can be approximately dated. The later petroglyphs were evidently done after the main outcrop was quarried, and the construction nearby of a timber-framed dun in the Late Bronze Age provides an explanation for this damage. Other archaeological evidence supports this view which has important implications. The second part of the paper, `The metrology of the carvings' by A David (150--4), uses the carvings to test the hypothesis that many cup-and-ring carvings were initially laid out using a very elementary `equal width' geometry using a simpler trammel and, further, that the diameters of such rings were usually measured in multiples of a unit of measurement approximately equal to the `megalithic inch' of 0.816" proposed by Thom. Most of the rings from the Greenland site have shapes consistent with the geometrical hypothesis, and evidence for the proposed unit of measurement is obtained which is statistically significant at the 2% level. Au | |||
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1991 | |||
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20 Jan 2002 |
