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Glasgow Archaeological Journal
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Glasgow Archaeological Journal
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Glasgow Archaeological Journal
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15
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1991
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Date Of Issue From: 1988 Date Of Issue To: 01
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20 Jan 2002
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Pictish stones class I: where and how?
Elizabeth A Alcock
1 - 21
This paper shows the relation of the stones to natural features such as height, distance from the sea and soil quality, and also some man-made features such as churches and cairns. The symbols are also considered in relation both to the stone itself and to one another. Au
Excavation at Newton, Islay
Roderick P J McCullagh
23 - 51
Excavations at Newton have revealed three phases of land use. Mesolithic activity was restricted to small flint working and domestic sites. A Neolithic phase appears to relate to a fragile soil resource which rapidly declined in quality. The final phase, possibly related to a Christian Irish presence on the island, occurs late in the sequence. Includes reports on `The flaked lithics' by Anne Clarke (32--7), `Neolithic pottery' by Audrey Henshall (37--8, M8), `The vegetation of the lower reaches of the lower Sorn valley' by M Andrews (38--43, M1-M7), `Macro-plant remains' (42--44), `Burnt bone' by E Halpin (44), `Soils' by R Shiel (44--5), `Phosphate analysis' by M Penny (46), `Geological description of the site' by G Collins (46--7), and `Dating' (47). Au
The stone circles at Temple Wood, Kilmartin, Argyll
Jack G Scott
53 - 124
Excavations between 1974 and 1980 disclosed a long and complex history. A slightly older and smaller site was confirmed close by to the north of the stone circle: originally a setting of posts, early in the fourth millennium BC it was in process of conversion to a stone circle when dismantled before completion. In its primary phase the main site was a freestanding stone circle, probably built later in the fourth millennium; one of the uprights was carved with spiral and another with ring ornament. An apparent modification was the insertion of dry walling between the stones, with an entrance to the east. Two short cist burials, one containing a Beaker, and each with its own revetted cairn, were placed outside the circle to the north and west. The cist in the centre and possibly a nearby cremation seem to mark the change from ritual to burial use. The drystone wall was thrown down and upright interval slabs were inserted between the standing stones and across the entrance. The addition of an outer bank of stones completed the process. Cremation burials under kerb cairns within the circle, with an increase in size to the surrounding bank to conceal both cairns and interval slabs, ended prehistoric use of the site early in the first millennium BC. Attempts are made to reconstruct the geometry of the main circle as well as the astronomical and calendrical potential of the whole site. Appendices include `Petrology of the standing stones of the southern circle' by E N Campbell (112), `Spiral and ring rock carvings in southern Scotland and northern England' by J G Scott (112--15), `Radiocarbon dates' by D D Harkness & M J Stenhouse (115--17) with `Charcoal identification' by C A Dickson, `Tooth fragment from internment in cist, burial A' by Dorothy A Lunt (117), `Cremated bones from interments in cairn, burial E' by A Young (117), `Analysis of soil samples from the cist of burial B' by I D Máté (117--21), and `Suggested method of geometrical construction of three stone circles' (120--4). Au
New light on Neolithic rock carving: the petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire
Euan W MacKie
Andrew David
125 - 155
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
Recent excavations at Carn Liath broch, Golspie, Sutherland
Paula Love
157 - 169
Excavations prior to masonry consolidation examined outworks to the north east of the broch and re-opened its entrance passage and guard cell. Despite thorough Victorian disturbance, a tentative chronology was established for the site. The Bronze Age was represented by a Beaker fragment and later putative cist with Food Vessel and shale washer necklace. Settlement, shown by post-holes, hearth and a severely truncated structure of slot construction, predated the building of the broch and attendant ring-wall, while later Iron Age activity included the division into outbuildings of the area between the broch and outer wall by the addition of cross-walls. Previously unrecorded circuit walls and midden were identified downslope of the main outworks, and the site produced evidence of shale and iron working. Au