Mapping, monumentalizing and protecting the barrow cemeteries of eastern and northern Scotland

Summary

In later Iron Age Scotland, the Picts begin to bury their dead under barrows and cairns, but the social, ideological and political triggers for this change in burial practice are unclear. One of the reasons is that the archaeological data has never been properly synthesized. No written sources exist in Scotland at this time so the archaeological data represents an important untapped resource. This talk will look at monumentalisation of Pictish barrow cemeteries and their relationship to routeways and settlements. It will include GIS analysis of transcribed aerial photographs showing crop mark data, which enables a much more robust assessment of routeways, boundaries and territories around the cemeteries.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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