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The Cleaven Dyke: a Neolithic cursus monument/bank barrow in Tayside Region, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gordon J. Barclay ,
Gordon S. Maxwell ,
Ian A. Simpson  and
Donald A. Davidson
Gordon J. Barclay
Affiliation:
Historic Scotland, Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh EH9 1SH, Scotland
Gordon S. Maxwell
Affiliation:
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 9NX, Scotland
Ian A. Simpson
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
Donald A. Davidson
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
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A linear earthwork in lowland Scotland, known a couple of centuries and often thought to be connected to Roman military operations on this far north frontier, is shown to be a Neolithic feature of a kind more often seen further south in Britain.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 263 , June 1995 , pp. 317 - 326
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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