PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND.1900 |
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... base . It is ornamented on the upper part by a band of slightly incised wavy and concentric lines . The jar was dug up in July last in the course of some excavations for the Caledonian Railway near the docks at Grangemouth . There seem ...
... base . It is ornamented on the upper part by a band of slightly incised wavy and concentric lines . The jar was dug up in July last in the course of some excavations for the Caledonian Railway near the docks at Grangemouth . There seem ...
Page 46
... base court surrounded by a trench , the mote or mound de - cending on one side into the trench . The mote is now only 8 or 10 ft , high and the trench almost filled up , but the writer in the N.SA. says that twenty four years before he ...
... base court surrounded by a trench , the mote or mound de - cending on one side into the trench . The mote is now only 8 or 10 ft , high and the trench almost filled up , but the writer in the N.SA. says that twenty four years before he ...
Page 46
... a flat top 50 it , in diameter , the base court measuring 230 by 200 ft , inside , and the trench 40 to 45 ft . in with . ( b ) EARTHWORKS WITH SOME STRUCTURAL RESEMBLANCE TO MILITARY 46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY , DECEMBER 11 , 1899 .
... a flat top 50 it , in diameter , the base court measuring 230 by 200 ft , inside , and the trench 40 to 45 ft . in with . ( b ) EARTHWORKS WITH SOME STRUCTURAL RESEMBLANCE TO MILITARY 46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY , DECEMBER 11 , 1899 .
Page 56
... base being formed by the straight and unfortified edge of the bank . To the N. the semicircular lines face nearly level ploughed land and have been a good deal destroyed . Where most perfect , in a plantation at the W. end , they ...
... base being formed by the straight and unfortified edge of the bank . To the N. the semicircular lines face nearly level ploughed land and have been a good deal destroyed . Where most perfect , in a plantation at the W. end , they ...
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... base resting on the edge of a precipitous bank ( fig . 22 ) . In this case the bank , which is on the east side , is about 150 ft . high , and is broken by rocky faces , and , although it can be climbed , is impracticable to an ...
... base resting on the edge of a precipitous bank ( fig . 22 ) . In this case the bank , which is on the east side , is about 150 ft . high , and is broken by rocky faces , and , although it can be climbed , is impracticable to an ...
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