“It is one of the largest ancient structures ever found in Scotland – a 35-metre long meeting hall for the earliest Stone Age farmers who tilled the soil 6,000 years ago.
The “monumental” timber building found near Carnoustie in Angus is more than a thousand years older than Stonehenge, and has been described as a find of international significance.
The discovery was made during archaeological excavations by GUARD archaeology commissioned by Angus Council, before the construction of new football pitches near Carnoustie High School.
Archaeologists have been scrutinising their findings after the site was uncovered when digging work began in 2017.
They have now concluded it was once home to a huge structure which would have been “alien”, in terms of design and complexity, to the people who came before and is unique to the time period in Scotland.
Dating to 4,000BC, the hall was built in a woodland clearing and would have been an imposing structure, its walls made of thick panels and its roof supported by huge beams. “
I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for archaeology, it’s in Carnoustie! Amazing.
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“It is one of the largest ancient structures ever found in Scotland – a 35-metre long meeting hall for the earliest Stone Age farmers who tilled the soil 6,000 years ago.
The “monumental” timber building found near Carnoustie in Angus is more than a thousand years older than Stonehenge, and has been described as a find of international significance.
The discovery was made during archaeological excavations by GUARD archaeology commissioned by Angus Council, before the construction of new football pitches near Carnoustie High School.
Archaeologists have been scrutinising their findings after the site was uncovered when digging work began in 2017.
They have now concluded it was once home to a huge structure which would have been “alien”, in terms of design and complexity, to the people who came before and is unique to the time period in Scotland.
Dating to 4,000BC, the hall was built in a woodland clearing and would have been an imposing structure, its walls made of thick panels and its roof supported by huge beams. “
I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for archaeology, it’s in Carnoustie! Amazing.
https://archive.is/C6fQC
amazing, hard to believe this is 4,000 years older than the nearby ardestie earth house which is ancient in itself
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