Clyde Tomb from Crarae Garden

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Clyde tomb from Crarae Garden
Outline sketch of Clyde Tombs

The Clyde Tomb of Crarae Garden near Inveraray ( Gaelic : Inbhir Aora ) is located in the NTS (National Trust for Scotland) garden of Crarae (also called Crarae glen garden) on Loch Fyne in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .

The remains of a trapezoidal Neolithic stone mound , which was once about 33.0 m long and about 22.0 m wide at the eastern end, taper to a width of 3.5 m at the western end. An almost flat orthostat facade with dry stone panels in between flanks the entrance to the gallery, which consists of three chambers.

The area in front of the Exedra and the gallery were excavated by Jack Scott between 1953 and 1955. The inside of the chambers was filled with earth. The position of all finds was recorded in three dimensions. The remains of at least three people have been identified. The burned bones in the two posterior chambers were from an adolescent or young adult aged 14-20 years and a 25-35 year old adult. The third person's bones found unburned were from a small adult. The artifacts consisted of a diamond-shaped arrowhead made of flint , broken ceramics and fragments of a later hand-held rotary mill . Around 2500 sea shells were found in large pits, in front of the facade and in the interior.

Two C14 dates were found within a study of the foods during the Neolithic period . The first came from bones from the chamber and gave a calibrated date from 3640 to 3380 BC. The isotopic examination of the bones showed that the diet of the buried was mainly based on cattle, sheep and pigs, but not on marine resources, despite the location on the banks of Loch Fyne and despite the storage of sea clams, including that of special oysters . The sample of a mussel shell from the pit in the chamber revealed a date from 4240 to 3780 BC. Chr.

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literature

  • Jack G. Scott: The Clyde Cairns of Scotland. In: Glyn Daniel, Poul Kjærum (Ed.): Megalithic graves and ritual. Papers presented at the III Atlantic Colloquium, Moesgård 1969 (= Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskabs skrifter. 11). Gyldendalske Boghandel (in comm.), Copenhagen 1973, ISBN 87-00-08861-7 , pp. 117–128.
  • Jörg Lindenbeck: Investigations into late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave forms in south-west Scotland. In: Archaeological Information . Vol. 11, No. 2, 1988, pp. 228-232.
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

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Coordinates: 56 ° 7 ′ 32.5 "  N , 5 ° 14 ′ 30.6"  W.