Old Photograph Cairnpapple Hill Scotland

Old photograph of Cairnpapple Hill located two miles North of Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. A Scottish hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site over about 4000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites like the Standing Stones of Stenness. Neolithic rituals began about 3500 BC with signs of small hearths, and precious objects left on the hill, presumably as offerings, including fine pottery bowls and stone axe heads imported from Cumbria and Wales.



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