Betylmania? - Small Standing Stones and the Megaliths of South-West Britain
Authors: Gillings, M.
Journal: Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 207-233
eISSN: 1468-0092
ISSN: 0262-5253
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12056
Abstract:This paper calls attention to a previously neglected element of the broad repertoire of monumental megalithic structures that characterize the later third and second millennia BC across the British Isles - extremely small standing stones. Despite their frequency and the complex arrangements and associations they embody, these miniliths are rarely recorded in detail and frequently marginalized to a generic background. As a result, they are largely absent from interpretative accounts. Drawing upon recent debates regarding materiality and monument form, alongside the results of excavations explicitly targeting tiny stone settings, the discussion argues that the phenomenon of raising and fixing small uprights was not only widespread and persistent, but sheds important light upon the beliefs and ideas driving monument construction during the later Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33451/
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Betylmania? - Small Standing Stones and the Megaliths of South-West Britain
Authors: Gillings, M.
Journal: OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 207-233
eISSN: 1468-0092
ISSN: 0262-5253
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12056
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33451/
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Betylmania? - Small Standing Stones and the Megaliths of South-West Britain
Authors: Gillings, M.
Journal: OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume: 34
Pages: 207-233
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
eISSN: 1468-0092
ISSN: 0262-5253
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12056
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33451/
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Betylmania? - Small Standing Stones and the Megaliths of South-West Britain
Authors: Gillings, M.
Journal: Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 207-233
ISSN: 0262-5253
Abstract:This paper calls attention to a previously neglected element of thebroad repertoire of monumental megalithic structures that characterize thelater third and second millennia BC across the British Isles – extremely smallstanding stones. Despite their frequency and the complex arrangements andassociations they embody, these miniliths are rarely recorded in detail andfrequently marginalized to a generic background. As a result, they are largelyabsent from interpretative accounts. Drawing upon recent debates regardingmateriality and monument form, alongside the results of excavations explicitlytargeting tiny stone settings, the discussion argues that the phenomenon ofraising and fixing small uprights was not only widespread and persistent, butsheds important light upon the beliefs and ideas driving monumentconstruction during the later Neolithic and Bronze Ages
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33451/
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