@article{3239b79bf5ee4cab9d2cc6f735974954,
title = "Ritual and remembrance at a prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland: excavations at Forteviot, Perth and Kinross",
abstract = "Aerial photography and excavations have brought to notice a major prehistoric ceremonial complex in central Scotland comparable to Stonehenge, although largely built in earth and timber. Beginning, like Stonehenge, as a cremation cemetery, it launched its monumentality by means of an immense circle of tree trunks, and developed it with smaller circles of posts and an earth bank (henge). A change of political mood in the Early Bronze Age is marked by one of Scotland's best preserved dagger-burials in a stone cist with an engraved lid. The perishable (or reusable) materials meant that this great centre lay for millennia under ploughed fields, until it was adopted, by design or by chance, as a centre of the Pictish kings.",
keywords = "Scotland, Strathearn, Neolithic, Bronze Age, third millenium BC, cremation, palisaded enclosure, timber circles, henge, cist burial , dagger burial , Pictish palace",
author = "Gordon Noble and Kenneth Brophy",
note = "The SERF project is funded by Historic Scotland, the University of Glasgow and the University of Aberdeen. The initial two years of the project were also funded by a British Academy grant (LRG: 45610). We would like to thank our SERF co-director, Stephen Driscoll, for his continuing support and encouragement, and Tessa Poller for her assistance and patience. Thanks also to Alison Sheridan for commenting on an earlier draft of this paper, which focused our minds. Our discussion of the dagger burial grave goods drew largely on the work of a range of colleagues, including the conservator Pieta Greaves, who have been, and still are, working on the contents of the cist, for which we are extremely grateful. Much of the contents of this paper could not have been written without the hard work of a tireless army of students and volunteers who have worked with us at Forteviot since 2006 – our thanks also go out to them.",
year = "2011",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1017/S0003598X00068319",
language = "English",
volume = "85",
pages = "787--804",
journal = "Antiquity",
issn = "0003-598X",
publisher = "Antiquity Ltd",
number = "329",
}