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The Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie, Grampian Region, Scotland: the building, the date, the plant macrofossils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alan D. Fairweather  and
Ian B.M. Ralston
Alan D. Fairweather
Affiliation:
28 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh EH11 1LX, Scotland
Ian B.M. Ralston
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 16–20 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland
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Abstract

Excavation of a cropmark in northeast Scotland revealed a substantial timber hall of the general form one expects from the early medieval period. Yet it turned out to be Neolithic in date! The structure produced copious quantities of charred cereal grains from contexts intimately associated with its destruction. Accelerator dates confirm the integrity of selected species with the period of use of the building. Hexaploid wheat and cultivated flax were both identified.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 255 , June 1993 , pp. 313 - 323
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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