June 20th photograph of Ancient Woodworking in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Making the Bronze Age. Ancient Woodworking and the Ballachulish Figure. While ritual and religion in prehistory is dominated by the study of stone circles, burial mounds and henges, a more direct human aspect to the ritual dimension can be glimpsed through the survival of a number of carved wooden human figures from across Britain and Ireland. The only one from Scotland was found in 1880 by workmen digging in a peat moss in Ballachulish. The female figure stood almost five foot high and had quartz pebbles for eyes and has been radiocarbon dated to around 600 BC, the very start of the Iron Age. Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust’s David Strachan and ancient woodworking expert Damian Goodburn making a scale replica of the carving using late Bronze Age and Iron Age replica tools, today in Riverside Park, Perth, Scotland.
June 20th photograph of Ancient Woodworking in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
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