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Cairnpapple Hill, in West Lothian, Scotland. 🏴
Cairnpapple Hill (Gaelic: Càrn a’ Phubaill; Welsh: Carn y Pabell; “Stone-heap of the tent”) was an important ritual site in ancient Scotland, used for rituals and burials of important persons for thousands of years. The site was being used since the Neolithic, with evidence of ritual offerings being placed there since 3,500 B.C. Around 3,000 B.C; the site was built up into a henge, with a bank and ditch covering an oval area 60 meters in diameter, lined with 24 wooden poles, and with entrances placed on the north and south. By 2,000 B.C. a stone and clay cairn was built off-center within the cairn, containing the burial of a man within a stone chamber, accompanied by beaker-style pottery and associated items, such as a club and a type of ceremonial mask. Over the course of the next several hundred years, the cairn was enlarged at least twice, with huge stones and additional burial-cists added, as well as at least two cremation burials.
The site’s later history is somewhat obscure, though it seems likely that it was still an important ritual site during Roman times: The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy recorded a site named Medio-Nemeton (“midland-sanctuary” or “middle-grove”) not far from the Antonine Frontier system; Cairnpapple Hill was just south of it and is the best candidate for identification as Medio-Nemeton. Archaeologists have also found two early medieval Christian burials within the site, indicating that the importance of Cairnpapple Hill had lasted even until then.
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Cairnpapple Hill (Gaelic: Càrn a’ Phubaill; Welsh: Carn y Pabell; “Stone-heap of the tent”) was an important ritual site in ancient Scotland, used for rituals and burials of important persons for thousands of years. The site was being used since the Neolithic, with evidence of ritual offerings being placed there since 3,500 B.C. Around 3,000 B.C; the site was built up into a henge, with a bank and ditch covering an oval area 60 meters in diameter, lined with 24 wooden poles, and with entrances placed on the north and south. By 2,000 B.C. a stone and clay cairn was built off-center within the cairn, containing the burial of a man within a stone chamber, accompanied by beaker-style pottery and associated items, such as a club and a type of ceremonial mask. Over the course of the next several hundred years, the cairn was enlarged at least twice, with huge stones and additional burial-cists added, as well as at least two cremation burials.
The site’s later history is somewhat obscure, though it seems likely that it was still an important ritual site during Roman times: The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy recorded a site named Medio-Nemeton (“midland-sanctuary” or “middle-grove”) not far from the Antonine Frontier system; Cairnpapple Hill was just south of it and is the best candidate for identification as Medio-Nemeton. Archaeologists have also found two early medieval Christian burials within the site, indicating that the importance of Cairnpapple Hill had lasted even until then.
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Cairnpapple Hill, in West Lothian, Scotland. 🏴
Cairnpapple Hill (Gaelic: Càrn a’ Phubaill; Welsh: Carn y Pabell; “Stone-heap of the tent”) was an important ritual site in ancient Scotland, used for rituals and burials of important persons for thousands of years. The site was being used since the Neolithic, with evidence of ritual offerings being placed there since 3,500 B.C. Around 3,000 B.C; the site was built up into a henge, with a bank and ditch covering an oval area 60 meters in diameter, lined with 24 wooden poles, and with entrances placed on the north and south. By 2,000 B.C. a stone and clay cairn was built off-center within the cairn, containing the burial of a man within a stone chamber, accompanied by beaker-style pottery and associated items, such as a club and a type of ceremonial mask. Over the course of the next several hundred years, the cairn was enlarged at least twice, with huge stones and additional burial-cists added, as well as at least two cremation burials.
The site’s later history is somewhat obscure, though it seems likely that it was still an important ritual site during Roman times: The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy recorded a site named Medio-Nemeton (“midland-sanctuary” or “middle-grove”) not far from the Antonine Frontier system; Cairnpapple Hill was just south of it and is the best candidate for identification as Medio-Nemeton. Archaeologists have also found two early medieval Christian burials within the site, indicating that the importance of Cairnpapple Hill had lasted even until then.
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Cairnpapple Hill (Gaelic: Càrn a’ Phubaill; Welsh: Carn y Pabell; “Stone-heap of the tent”) was an important ritual site in ancient Scotland, used for rituals and burials of important persons for thousands of years. The site was being used since the Neolithic, with evidence of ritual offerings being placed there since 3,500 B.C. Around 3,000 B.C; the site was built up into a henge, with a bank and ditch covering an oval area 60 meters in diameter, lined with 24 wooden poles, and with entrances placed on the north and south. By 2,000 B.C. a stone and clay cairn was built off-center within the cairn, containing the burial of a man within a stone chamber, accompanied by beaker-style pottery and associated items, such as a club and a type of ceremonial mask. Over the course of the next several hundred years, the cairn was enlarged at least twice, with huge stones and additional burial-cists added, as well as at least two cremation burials.
The site’s later history is somewhat obscure, though it seems likely that it was still an important ritual site during Roman times: The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy recorded a site named Medio-Nemeton (“midland-sanctuary” or “middle-grove”) not far from the Antonine Frontier system; Cairnpapple Hill was just south of it and is the best candidate for identification as Medio-Nemeton. Archaeologists have also found two early medieval Christian burials within the site, indicating that the importance of Cairnpapple Hill had lasted even until then.
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