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This site on mainland Orkney has been under excavation since 2004. Beneath what appeared to be just a field, a massive complex of monumental Neolithic buildings has been unearthed dating from the centuries around 3000BC.It is thought they were ceremonial buildings and according to Nick Card, director of the site, what has been discovered is just the tip of the iceberg.
“The stones had been built in sections by people from different parts of Orkney, so it might have been a big Orkney-wide project where families or clans were told ‘that’s your bit’.At this ancient site on Arran there are not one, but several stone circles, suggesting it was a popular place of ritual and perhaps a pilgrimage site.
“Wherever you are going, Arran is on the way if you are going up the West Coast, so people were probably stopping off to maybe trade or do rituals at these standing stones.”It’s assumed these stones functioned as an astronomical lunar calendar given a cosmic lightshow happens here every 18.6 years.The shape of the hills form the silhouette of a woman. The moon rises at the feet of woman, and slowly travels along the ridge of the hills, framed by the stones.
It dates back to around 3800 BC but was used centuries later for a number of Bronze Age burials before also being used for Christian graves.Cairnpapple Hill near Bathgate“It’s on this big hill just outside of Bathgate and on a clear day you can see Goatfell in the West and Bass Rock in the East, the entire width of the country which goes some way to explaining why people went there for 4000 years for rituals.
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