Euan W Mackie
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3642071 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Euan W Mackie |
| NOMBRES | Euan W |
| APELLIDO | Mackie |
| FIRMA | MACKIE E W |
| AFILIACIONES | The Hunterian |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Scottish Iron Age Glass Beads
Scottish Iron Age Glass Beads, By Euan W. Mackie (1996, 29:4-7)
Crannogs in the Clyde
Accounts are provided of the examination of two adjacent crannogs in the Clyde at Erskine and Old Kilpatrick. The first is based on the planning of the surface remains, a more detailed examination of some of the timbers and an assessment of the limited finds recovered; the second on collating the scattered antiquarian records of an ‘excavation’ undertaken in 1906 and a detailed examination of the surviving finds. The two sites are contextualised …
Towards a new interpretation of Gilmerton Cove – a possible Druid temple
Gilmerton Cove, a visitor attraction six kilometres south of Edinburgh, has long been thought to be a strange 18th Century underground pub, but Julian Spalding and Euan MacKie think it is much older and dates from the Iron Age. They make the case that it could even be a deliberately buried Druid Temple discovered by chance and dug out 300 years ago and luckily preserved since then. No pre-18th century artefacts have been found in the Cove, but th…
Brochs and the empire the impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie Broch excavations
Excavations of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD
Excavations on Sheep Hill, West Dunbartonshire, 1966–69
Excavations at Sheep Hill hillfort, West Dunbartonshire, took place at weekends between 1966 and 1969, with a small team of volunteers. The fort is sited on a volcanic plug of basalt with extensive views up and down the river Clyde. The finds are in the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow, and a preliminary account of the discoveries was published a few years later ( MacKie 1976 ). The hilltop stronghold was found in fact to have been t…
A Rosetta Stone for the Prehistoric Solar Calendar? Kerbstone K15 at Knowth, Ireland
Interpreting Neolithic passage grave art is difficult but, according to middle range theory, could be achieved with analogies with known other factors. Celestial phenomena present one possibility and can easily be assessed qualitatively and quantitatively; however, a single match in modern eyes need not necessarily have been intended by Neolithic minds; independent corroboration is needed. The late fourth millennium BC kerbstone KI5 at Knowth, Ir…
Unfair Stigmatization
The Broch Cultures of Atlantic Scotland. Part 2. The Middle Iron Age
The basic features of broch architecture are discussed. There were probably a large number of classic, hollow-walled, dry-stone towers, as opposed to lower, less architecturally sophisticated ‘Atlantic roundhouses’. Various kinds of dating imply that most were built – probably by professionals – in the Middle Iron Age, from c.100 BC to AD 200, although a few emerged earlier in Shetland, perhaps from 400–300 BC. Wheelhouses seem to have emerged fr…
The Prehistoric Solar Calendar
The work of Alexander Thom on the geometrical and astronomical achievements of prehistoric Britain—depending as it does almost entirely on data gained from surveying and statistical analysis—is rarely referred to now by British archaeologists. Yet his idea of the prehistoric sixteen-”month” solar calendar—in which the year is divided successively into halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths—can now be tested with evidence from other fields, incl…
The Broch Cultures of Atlantic Scotland
A new overview of the broch and wheelhouse‐building cultures is offered because recent comparable attempts have omitted substantial amounts of relevant data, such as discussion of the most plausible broch prototypes and of the details of the material cultural sequence, particularly the pottery. Well dated Early Iron Age roundhouse sites have often been described, but promontory forts of the same period, showing the specialized broch hollow wall, …
Sheila M. Elsdon Christian MacLagan
Two querns from Appin
During a visit to Lismore in October 1999 the writer noticed the upper stone of a rotary quern sitting outside the front door of the farm at Balure (NM 8655 4315). It is reported to have been brought there some time ago from the croft house at Balimackillichan (NM 8595 4370), 0.8 km to the NW and behind Bachuil House, where it had apparently served as a weight for many years to help hold down a thatched roof (Fig 1)
Excavations at Dun Ardtreck, Skye, in 1964 and 1965
Reports investigations at Dun Ardtreck, a small D-shaped drystone strong-hold surrounded by an outer wall, which is located on the west coast of Skye, on a rock knoll with a sheer cliff. It could be one of a small group of sites with a high broch hollow wall but which were not circular towers. Considers the original height of the now ruined wall. Construction was probably in the first or second centuries BC and was followed by two distinct phases…
The structure and skills of British Neolithic Society
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The Thinking behind the Design
Most people will be aware by now that Scotland's old National Museum of Antiquities in Queen Street re-opened in December 1998 in a new building in Chambers Street. This is a modern, purpose-built structure added on to the Victorian Royal Museum of Scotland. Many may also be aware that the nature of the archaeological exhibits has been fundamentally changed (though not that of the post-medieval ones: Megaw & Megaw 2000). What has happened to the …
Continuity Over Three Thousand Years of Northern Prehistory
The excavation report of Howe, a multi-period prehistoric site in Orkney, appeared, in 1994 and is reviewed here in detail. The Iron Age levels revealed a series of stone roundhouses and broch-like buildings which – it is claimed – show the local development of these structures in the north. However the evidence for the nature of the structures concerned, and for the dating of the earlier ones, is not really clear enough to support this hypothesi…
John NORTH. Stonehenge
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Some Eighteenth Century Ferryhouses in Appin, Lorn, Argyll
The evolution of the single-storeyed mortared stone cottage in the western highlands of Scotland seems to mirror that of the upper strata of late seventeenth and eighteenth century clan society in the region, and in particular to reflect a little of the disintegration of that society after the two failed Stuart uprisings and its consequent gradual integration with the lowland economy. An analysis of the architectural history of the Ferry House (l…
Maeshowe and the winter solstice
A generation ago, enquiries into the astronomical and mathematical knowledge of the standing stone-erectors of prehistoric Britain dealt largely with statistical patterns. Since then, the great passage grave at Newgrange, eastern Ireland, has proved to be engineered to address the midwinter sunrise. It is time once more to look at another great chamber tomb, Maeshowe in northernmost Scotland, with these concerns in mind
Three Iron Age rotary querns from southern Scotland
Gurness and Midhowe brochs in Orkney
Since 1980 a new view about the nature and development of the Scottish iron age broch towers has emerged among younger prehistorians in the north—one which emphasizes their purely local origin and development, wider range of architectural features and long period of construction and use, over half a millennium or more. This contrasts with the author's earlier views which supposed these hollow-walled dry stone towers to have been built over a fair…
Lecture Summaries
Ten lecture summaries:The Excavations of the Baroque palace and garden of the Earls of Mar at AlloaThe Neolithic settlement of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat, North UistThe furnishing of the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the French Princes in 1796Disease in Scotland's past: the evidence from the bonesScottish Place-Names: signposts to the pastThe Sources of the Early Medieval Animal Ornament of the British IslesThe Norse, the Northern Isles and the…
The Iron Age Semibrochs of Atlantic Scotland
Modern studies of later prehistoric cultural and technological developments in maritime Atlantic Scotland have rejected any form of diffusionist explanations and insist on the priority of local evolution and adaptation to explain the appearance of various forms of monumental drystone buildings, the most spectacular of which are the iron age brochs. New discoveries in Orkney of less sophisticated but massive stone roundhouses going back to the end…
New Light on Neolithic Rock Carving The petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire
Because of a quarrying threat the carved rock surfaces at Greenland were recorded afresh in 1984 but the site fortunately still exists. On the two carved outcrops are many cup-marks (some with tails) and a variety of cups-with-rings, mostly with short tails. The site is the first which can be shown to have been carved in two distinct phases, far apart in time, and the first at which the carving (as opposed to the re-use) of some of the symbols ca…
John W. Hedges. Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney. Oxford
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The Origin and Development of the Broch and Wheelhouse Building Cultures of the Scottish Iron Age
The first account of the Scottish Iron Age which attempted to set its monuments and material cultures in their British and North European context was that published by V. G. Childe in 1935. Childe suggested that the brochs, which had hitherto been at best discussed in a purely local context, might be understood better if regarded as only one aspect of the more widespread phenomenon of the hundreds of tiny stone fortlets, or duns, of the highlands…
Maeshowe and the winter solstice
A generation ago, enquiries into the astronomical and mathematical knowledge of the standing stone-erectors of prehistoric Britain dealt largely with statistical patterns. Since then, the great passage grave at Newgrange, eastern Ireland, has proved to be engineered to address the midwinter sunrise. It is time once more to look at another great chamber tomb, Maeshowe in northernmost Scotland, with these concerns in mind
Radiocarbon Dates and the Scottish Iron Age
Within the past two years the chronology of the later prehistoric period in Scotland has been given a new precision by no less than 24 C14 dates obtained from nine different sites, most of which are conventionally assigned to the pre- Roman Iron Age. Previously the identification and dating of the cultures and sites of this period had depended almost entirely on various exotic bronzes and the time that they and other traits were estimated to have…
New Light on the End of Classic Maya Culture at Benque Viejo, British Honduras
The excavation of two structures in 1959 showed that the end of the Classic came suddenly at the end of Benque Viejo IIIb. One building, probably a palace, had completely collapsed and buried Benque Viejo IIIb pottery; the other, probably residential, was badly damaged at the end of Benque Viejo IIIb and its ruins were reoccupied in Benque Viejo IV, probably by local peasants. No attempt to reconstruct either building was made and this, with the …
Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain
Gurness and Midhowe brochs in Orkney
Since 1980 a new view about the nature and development of the Scottish iron age broch towers has emerged among younger prehistorians in the north—one which emphasizes their purely local origin and development, wider range of architectural features and long period of construction and use, over half a millennium or more. This contrasts with the author's earlier views which supposed these hollow-walled dry stone towers to have been built over a fair…
New Light on Neolithic Rock Carving The petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire
Because of a quarrying threat the carved rock surfaces at Greenland were recorded afresh in 1984 but the site fortunately still exists. On the two carved outcrops are many cup-marks (some with tails) and a variety of cups-with-rings, mostly with short tails. The site is the first which can be shown to have been carved in two distinct phases, far apart in time, and the first at which the carving (as opposed to the re-use) of some of the symbols ca…
New excavations on the Monamore Neolithic chambered cairn, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, in 1961
The Broch Cultures of Atlantic Scotland
A new overview of the broch and wheelhouse‐building cultures is offered because recent comparable attempts have omitted substantial amounts of relevant data, such as discussion of the most plausible broch prototypes and of the details of the material cultural sequence, particularly the pottery. Well dated Early Iron Age roundhouse sites have often been described, but promontory forts of the same period, showing the specialized broch hollow wall, …
The Iron Age Semibrochs of Atlantic Scotland
Modern studies of later prehistoric cultural and technological developments in maritime Atlantic Scotland have rejected any form of diffusionist explanations and insist on the priority of local evolution and adaptation to explain the appearance of various forms of monumental drystone buildings, the most spectacular of which are the iron age brochs. New discoveries in Orkney of less sophisticated but massive stone roundhouses going back to the end…
Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age
In prehistoric times the Western Isles and the and the west coast of Scotland north of the Firth of Clyde seem to have formed a geographical and cultural unit quite distinct from the central and southern mainland but closely connected with the far north, with the counties of Sutherland and Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland Isles. Together all these territories form a highland and island zone which has recently been designated as one of the fo…
Two Radiocarbon Dates from a Clyde-Solway Chambered Cairn
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A Rosetta Stone for the Prehistoric Solar Calendar? Kerbstone K15 at Knowth, Ireland
Interpreting Neolithic passage grave art is difficult but, according to middle range theory, could be achieved with analogies with known other factors. Celestial phenomena present one possibility and can easily be assessed qualitatively and quantitatively; however, a single match in modern eyes need not necessarily have been intended by Neolithic minds; independent corroboration is needed. The late fourth millennium BC kerbstone KI5 at Knowth, Ir…
The Broch Cultures of Atlantic Scotland. Part 2. The Middle Iron Age
The basic features of broch architecture are discussed. There were probably a large number of classic, hollow-walled, dry-stone towers, as opposed to lower, less architecturally sophisticated ‘Atlantic roundhouses’. Various kinds of dating imply that most were built – probably by professionals – in the Middle Iron Age, from c.100 BC to AD 200, although a few emerged earlier in Shetland, perhaps from 400–300 BC. Wheelhouses seem to have emerged fr…
The structure and skills of British Neolithic Society
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Some Eighteenth Century Ferryhouses in Appin, Lorn, Argyll
The evolution of the single-storeyed mortared stone cottage in the western highlands of Scotland seems to mirror that of the upper strata of late seventeenth and eighteenth century clan society in the region, and in particular to reflect a little of the disintegration of that society after the two failed Stuart uprisings and its consequent gradual integration with the lowland economy. An analysis of the architectural history of the Ferry House (l…
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
Radiocarbon dates for two Mesolithic shell heaps and a Neolithic axe factory in Scotland
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Thoughts on radiocarbon dating
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New Light on the End of Classic Maya Culture at Benque Viejo, British Honduras
The excavation of two structures in 1959 showed that the end of the Classic came suddenly at the end of Benque Viejo IIIb. One building, probably a palace, had completely collapsed and buried Benque Viejo IIIb pottery; the other, probably residential, was badly damaged at the end of Benque Viejo IIIb and its ruins were reoccupied in Benque Viejo IV, probably by local peasants. No attempt to reconstruct either building was made and this, with the …
Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras
Two Radiocarbon Dates from a Clyde-Solway Chambered Cairn
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The Origin and Development of the Broch and Wheelhouse Building Cultures of the Scottish Iron Age
The first account of the Scottish Iron Age which attempted to set its monuments and material cultures in their British and North European context was that published by V. G. Childe in 1935. Childe suggested that the brochs, which had hitherto been at best discussed in a purely local context, might be understood better if regarded as only one aspect of the more widespread phenomenon of the hundreds of tiny stone fortlets, or duns, of the highlands…
In Quest of the White God
Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age
In prehistoric times the Western Isles and the and the west coast of Scotland north of the Firth of Clyde seem to have formed a geographical and cultural unit quite distinct from the central and southern mainland but closely connected with the far north, with the counties of Sutherland and Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland Isles. Together all these territories form a highland and island zone which has recently been designated as one of the fo…
New excavations on the Monamore Neolithic chambered cairn, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, in 1961
Iron Age pottery from the Gress Lodge earth-house, Stornoway, Lewis
IN 1946 Mr Gilbert Holmes sent to the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, a collection of pottery and animal bones obtained during excavations into the earthhouse in front of Gress Lodge, near Stornoway (approx.N.G.R. NB 494419).This underground structure, situated under the lawn in front of the Lodge, was described in 1874 by Peter Liddell of Gress as a circular chamber about 9 ft. in diameter with a masonry pillar in its centre supporting …
Timber-Laced and Vitrified Walls in Iron Age Forts
been set out more than once . The practical demonstration in 1937 by Professor V. G. Childe that a drystone wall with many timber beams inside its rubble core would, if burnt under the right conditions, produce vitrified masses, provided the first really satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon*3 >. Forts with such timber-laced walls are known from the continent and there are a few in Scotland of which the best known is probably Aber nethy in P…
Radiocarbon Dates and the Scottish Iron Age
Within the past two years the chronology of the later prehistoric period in Scotland has been given a new precision by no less than 24 C14 dates obtained from nine different sites, most of which are conventionally assigned to the pre- Roman Iron Age. Previously the identification and dating of the cultures and sites of this period had depended almost entirely on various exotic bronzes and the time that they and other traits were estimated to have…
English Migrants and Scottish Brochs (1)
Thoughts on radiocarbon dating
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Radiocarbon dates for two Mesolithic shell heaps and a Neolithic axe factory in Scotland
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Some new quernstones from brochs and duns
The primary contexts of rotary querns found on seven broch, semibroch or dun sites are used as a basis for a discussion of the origins of rotary querns in Scotland. Two types were in use from 1st century BC to 3rd century AD: a bun-shaped quern with bipartite hopper and fixed lateral handle, which spread into Scotland initially from N England, and a disc quern with loose upright handle which was introduced direct from S England along with other e…
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Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain
Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain
The thirteen essays in this book were presented at the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists in 1972, and are now extensively revised.The authors are mainly professional anthropologists, some including the editor, with medical qualifications, and two with only the latter.These professional backgrounds have helped to make this an important book in primitive medicine as well as in social anthropology.The main theme is conce…
Dun an Ruigh Ruaidh, Loch Broom, Ross & Cromarty Excavations in 1968 and 1978
The site is an Iron Age stone fortlet, of the semibroch type and probably a prototype broch; it is only the second of its class to be excavated. Radiocarbon dates show that it was built in the 3rd or 2nd centuries b.c. and this early date is supported also by the artefacts. The mainly aceramic material culture shows strong links with S Scotland but the fort itself is Hebridean, as are the three early potsherds found. The wall has an upper and low…
Noel Fojut. A guide to prehistoric Shetland , 73 pp, 8 figs, 4 pls. The Shetland Times, Lerwick, 1981. No price.
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
The Leckie broch, Stirlingshire
Some of the results of the excavation of the broch at Leckie between 1970 and 1978 are briefly described. The clear stratigraphy and the many closely dateable Roman finds allow new conclusions to be drawn about the date of some Iron Age artefacts and about the origin of the southern Scottish brochs. For example it seems now that some of these brochs were built, presumably with the approval of the Roman Army, during the Flavian period (AD 80–100) …
A late single-piece dug-out canoe from Loch Doon, Ayrshire
Iron Age and Early Historic Occupation of Jonathan's Cave, East Wemyss
Excavations in 1980 in front of the Well Cave 3 and Jonathan's Cave (which contains Pictish carvings) uncovered a clear sequence of deposits on top of a raised beach; these included probably Iron Age and Pictish levels, and Medieval and recent layers. More of the strata in front of Jonathan's cave were exposed by new sea erosion in 1985. A full report on the discoveries is being prepared by the SDD
John W. Hedges. Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney. Oxford
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Impact on the Scottish Iron Age of the discoveries at Leckie broch
The paper reviews some of the evidence for the nature of the broch phenomenon and its origins, using the discoveries at Leckie broch as a starting point. It is concluded that, contrary to a commonly held view, there is evidence for a new phase of contact of some kind between Atlantic Scotland and distant regions like southern England, Ireland and Brittany, a phase which defines the middle Iron Age and sees the onset of the broch-building cultures…
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