Rising Sun on the Cleaven Dyke
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Took this a while ago on my first day out with the new camera.
Stuff about the Cleaven Dyke...
Cursus monuments. The largest in Scotland is the Cleaven Dyke, Perthshire. This is an unusual cross between a bank barrow and a cursus, with a 9m wide bank running midway between two ditches, which are 50m apart. The Dyke runs for over 2km, and was constructed in the late 5th or early 4th millenium cal BC. It is considered to represent some 60-80,000 hours of labour. The Dyke itself however is unlikley to have been constructed in one go.
At the NW end it appears that an oval burial mound was built first. This was partly covered by a long barrow and this in turn had the Dyke added to its SE end. The Dyke is not even in its construction, and has about 34 segments. This may indicate that it was constructed over some period of time. One of the excavators of the Dyke, comments that 'the apparent large scale of the effort necessary to construct the Cleaven Dyke may be an illusion; it and other cursus monuments may have been built over a long time period in relatively short segments... In some societies coming together over a long period to repeat some ritual activity (in this case the construction of a segment of the Dyke) may be more important than the monument eventually produced by many year's labour').
(a bit like flikcr)
Rising Sun on the Cleaven Dyke
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Took this a while ago on my first day out with the new camera.
Stuff about the Cleaven Dyke...
Cursus monuments. The largest in Scotland is the Cleaven Dyke, Perthshire. This is an unusual cross between a bank barrow and a cursus, with a 9m wide bank running midway between two ditches, which are 50m apart. The Dyke runs for over 2km, and was constructed in the late 5th or early 4th millenium cal BC. It is considered to represent some 60-80,000 hours of labour. The Dyke itself however is unlikley to have been constructed in one go.
At the NW end it appears that an oval burial mound was built first. This was partly covered by a long barrow and this in turn had the Dyke added to its SE end. The Dyke is not even in its construction, and has about 34 segments. This may indicate that it was constructed over some period of time. One of the excavators of the Dyke, comments that 'the apparent large scale of the effort necessary to construct the Cleaven Dyke may be an illusion; it and other cursus monuments may have been built over a long time period in relatively short segments... In some societies coming together over a long period to repeat some ritual activity (in this case the construction of a segment of the Dyke) may be more important than the monument eventually produced by many year's labour').
(a bit like flikcr)