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Incised motifs in the passage-graves at Quoyness and Cuween, Orkney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, England. [email protected]
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Abstract

The decoration of Neolithic passage-graves in Scotland and the British Isles/Ireland has come under renewed scrutiny–showing interesting patterns between tombs and houses. Here Richard Bradley examines two Orkney tombs and compares their decorated stones with motifs in Ireland and elsewhere.

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passage-graveOrkneyrock-artScotland
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 387 - 390
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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