‘Thanks to you the best has been made of a bad job’: Vere Gordon Childe and the Bronze Age cairn at Ri Cruin, Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Cowie, Trevor
Date published
October 14, 2016
Abstract
Ri Cruin is one of the series of Early Bronze Age cairns that make up the well-known linear cemetery in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. The aim of this short paper is to make more fully accessible and account of the work undertaken by Gordon Childe in the summer of 1936 when the site was prepared for public access. Although both by the scope of the work and the archaeological results were limited it adds previously unpublished detail and touches of local colour to the record of Childe's time in Scotland.
Book title
Ancient lives: object, people and place in Early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday
Editor
Hunter, Fraser
Sheridan, J A
Pagination
111-126
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Place of publication
Leiden, Netherlands
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Additional information
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