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- Title
Rock art from a Bronze Age burial at Balblair, near Inverness.
- Authors
Dutton, Andrew; Clapperton, Kelly; Carter, Stephen
- Abstract
This report presents the findings of archaeological excavations undertaken on the heavily denuded remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn at Balblair, near Inverness, daring 2004. Little information was recovered about the cairn, other than a ground plan, and the single central cist had been opened and emptied in the past. leaving only a few sherds of Food Vessel-style pottery with which to date the monument. The cist itself proved to be of much greater interest with all three of the surviving side slabs bearing rock art. In two cases this comprises small cup marks and a perforation but the third slab bears a large cup mark and perforation, and complex carved design without obvious parallel in Scottish prehistoric rock art. An analysis of the cist slabs concludes that, although the main slab is exceptional in its design, the site as a whole conforms to our current understanding of 'single grave art' and the use/re-use of rock art in the early Bronze Age.
- Subjects
INVERNESS (Scotland); SCOTLAND; ROCK art (Archaeology); BRONZE Age; INTERMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; POTTERY
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2007, Issue 137, p117
- ISSN
0081-1564
- Publication type
Article