News | Posted December 19, 2023
New open access e-book: The Moon and the Bonfire
The Society is pleased to announce the release of this title as an open access e-book, now available through the Open Access E-Books platform.
The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-East Scotland
Click here to access the e-book: https://doi.org/10.9750/9781908332325
This volume presents the result of three excavations and two field walking surveys in Aberdeenshire. They were intended to shed new light on the character, chronology and structural development of the distinctive recumbent stone circles which are such a feature of north-east Scotland. Although the monuments share certain elements with other traditions of prehistoric architecture, and, in particular, with the Clava Cairns of the inner Moray Firth, no excavations at these sites had been published since the 1930s and their wider contexts had not been investigated by field survey. The new project took advantage of techniques which had not been used before, including pollen analysis and soil micromorphology, in an attempt to interpret these monuments in their wider chronological and geographical contexts. In that respect this work was the sequel to an earlier investigation of the Clava Cairns.
New open access e-book: The Moon and the Bonfire
The Society is pleased to announce the release of this title as an open access e-book, now available through the Open Access E-Books platform.
The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-East Scotland
Click here to access the e-book: https://doi.org/10.9750/9781908332325
This volume presents the result of three excavations and two field walking surveys in Aberdeenshire. They were intended to shed new light on the character, chronology and structural development of the distinctive recumbent stone circles which are such a feature of north-east Scotland. Although the monuments share certain elements with other traditions of prehistoric architecture, and, in particular, with the Clava Cairns of the inner Moray Firth, no excavations at these sites had been published since the 1930s and their wider contexts had not been investigated by field survey. The new project took advantage of techniques which had not been used before, including pollen analysis and soil micromorphology, in an attempt to interpret these monuments in their wider chronological and geographical contexts. In that respect this work was the sequel to an earlier investigation of the Clava Cairns.