Bronze Age Prehistoric Scotland
bronze-age burial cist, cairnpapple west lothian
the cairns , megalithic monuments continued bronze age, saw metals additional material rather replacement flint. however, there decline in both building of large new structures , total area under cultivation 2500 b.c.
the clava cairns , standing stones near inverness show complex geometries , astronomical alignments, smaller, perhaps individual, tombs instead of communal neolithic tombs.
mummies dating 1600–1300 bc have been discovered @ cladh hallan on south uist.
hill forts introduced, such eildon hill near melrose in scottish borders, goes around 1000 bc , accommodated several hundred houses on fortified hilltop. excavation @ edinburgh castle found late bronze age material 850 bc.
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