The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside

With Kenneth Brophy, Christopher Burgess, Donald Davidson, Kevin J. Edwards, Bill Finlayson, Ian C. Grieve, Paul Johnson, Deborah J. Long, Clive Ruggles, Alan Saville, Lorna Sharpe, Alison Sheridan, Ian Simpson, Bill Startin, Andrew Tyler and Graeme Whittington, and contributions by Ciara Clarke, Michael Cressey, Alan Duffy, David Hogg, Tim Holden and Ruth Pelling.
Illustrations: Sylvia Stevenson and Marion O'Neil.
Cleaven Dyke was for some centuries identified as a Roman construction. However, the authors' surveys and excavations strongly suggest that it was built as part of the Neolithic cursus monument tradition. The volume presents the comprehensive results of their study, showing in detail the segmented nature of the Dyke's construction, its alignment and the palaeoenvironmental evidence for the surrounding landscape. In addition the nearby recitlinear timber enclosure of Littleour is also described.