Orkney is rightly lauded on UNESCO’s World Heritage list for its wealth of Neolithic sites, but this week Arran has pushed to the fore with a…
ORKNEY is rightly lauded on UNESCO’s World Heritage list for its wealth of Neolithic sites, but this week Arran has pushed to the fore with a massive discovery of its own.
The Drumadoon Excavation has been the impressive work of an inter-disciplinary team from the universities of Glasgow, Birkbeck, Bournemouth, Reading, Coventry, Birmingham, and Southampton, together with archaeologists from Archaeology Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Kenny Brophy, senior lecturer in archaeology at Glasgow University, who co-directed the excavations, adds to the excitement about Drumadoon: “I have been fortunate to be involved in the excavations of several cursus monuments over the last 30 years, but this is by far the most significant.
"This building project, rather than simply a harmonious coming together of people to make a single monument, consisted of a series of makings and unmaking. In a way the 'monument' changes as much as the landscape itself, and building practice was at times discordant,” she says. I’ve stood too and wondered if Kilpatrick Dun is a Bronze Age burial site or a hill fort? Torr A’Chaisteal Fort sits atop a grassy knoll and dates to the Iron Age. Torrylin Cairn charms as one of the"Clyde Cairns", Neolithic chambered cairns around the firth.
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