With Kenneth Brophy, Christopher Burgess, Donald Davidson, Kevin J. Edwards, Bill Finlayson, Ian C. Grieve, Paul Johnson, Deborah J. Long, Clive Ruggles, Alan Saville, Lorna Sharpe, Alison Sheridan, Ian Simpson, Bill Startin, Andrew Tyler and Graeme Whittington, and contributions by Ciara Clarke, Michael Cressey, Alan Duffy, David Hogg, Tim Holden and Ruth Pelling.
Illustrations: Sylvia Stevenson and Marion O'Neil.
Cleaven Dyke was for some centuries identified as a Roman construction. However, the authors' surveys and excavations strongly suggest that it was built as part of the Neolithic cursus monument tradition. The volume presents the comprehensive results of their study, showing in detail the segmented nature of the Dyke's construction, its alignment and the palaeoenvironmental evidence for the surrounding landscape. In addition the nearby recitlinear timber enclosure of Littleour is also described.
Author(s): Gordon J. Barclay, Gordon S. Maxwell
Series: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph Series, 13
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+146
City: Edinburgh
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors x
List of Illustrations xi
List of Tables xiii
Introduction xv
Notes to the publication xvi
1. Setting the scene 1
2. The Survey and excavation of the Cleaven Dyke 13
3. The Cleaven Dyke - Construction and design 47
4. Excavation at Littleour 53
5. Survey Methodology at the Cleaven Dyke and Littleour 74
6. Cursus monuments and bank barrows of Tayside and Fife Kenneth Brophy 92
7. The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Context, form and purpose 109
8. Postscript 126
References 131
Foreign language summaries 139
Index 143
