Excavations at a multi-period site at Greenbogs, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and the four-post timber architecture tradition of Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland.

摘要: This report outlines the unexpected discovery of a group Late Neolithic structures at Greenbogs, Monymusk in Aberdeenshire, along with series later prehistoric features mid-1990s. Recent radiocarbon dating shows that two four-post timber found here date to period 2890–2490 cal bc. These were association range other including an oval structure and diffuse areas burning. The closest parallels for can be slowly growing body structures, some being interpreted as roofed dwellings others or unroofed monuments. article places Greenbogs their wider context, identifies number unexcavated aerial record addresses nature across Britain Ireland suggests more common element architecture than previously identified. A building type appears have been shared large variety contexts, from seemingly mundane ‘charged’, part elaborate monument complexes. identified include concentration Middle Bronze Age graves containing cremated human bones, one upright urn, Iron pits features.