This volume presents the methodology and results for the
excavations at Cairnderry and Bargrennan, south-west Scotland. A
comparative chapter compares the excavation results from both
sites, and presents interpretations of these results, particularly
in terms of the architecture and the early Bronze Age mortuary
practices. Chapter 5 considers the architecture of Cairnderry and
Bargrennan in terms of wider trends in the construction of
chambered cairns throughout the British Isles and throughout the
Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Chapter 6 places the early Bronze Age
activity at Cairnderry and Bargrennan within a local context by
examining mortuary practices across Dumfries and Galloway. It
focuses on comparisons with other sites where cremated bones were
deposited and cinerary urns used and/or sites where cairns were
constructed or re-used in the early Bronze Age. Chapter 7 provides
a summary of conclusions as to the finds and revisits the problem
of dating Bargrennan chambered cairns, before suggesting avenues
for future research in Galloway. The appendices draw together the
specialists reports on finds from the excavations (including a
substantial contextualisation of some of the early Bronze Age
artefacts), context descriptions and radiocarbon dating results.
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