Location
Daviot
Daviot, Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 747 288
Description
Recumbent stone circle containing a ring cairn with adjacent cremation cemetery. One of the stones, next to the flanker to the east of the recumbent, bears 12 cup marks. The stone circle precedes, in time, the cairn which covers cremations and the scattering of bone, flint and pottery. Excavation of the cairn showed use from the second to the first half of the first millenium B. C. . The adjacent Bronze Age cremation cemetry dates from circa 3500 years ago. At least 31 cremations and burials occured around a central pit, 8 of them children between 3 and 6. 11 deposits in urns have been found and 9 in pits some deposits containing several individuals. This place was used as a sacred site over an extended period of several thousands of years.
Related Information
5 miles northwest of Inverurie
Era
Neolithic era
Information Source
Feachern, Richard, "Guide to Prehistoric Scotland"; London, 1963, B.T, Batsford, ISBN 0713432640
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Categories
Iconography
- cup and ring marks
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
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