Balbridie

Balbridie (also Balbridie Cottage or Balbridie Hall ) is a 1976 aerial photography on a field near Banchory near the River Dee near the road B9077 in Kincardineshire in Scotland, discovered large Neolithic wooden house. The archaeological site is one of the earliest known permanent settlements in Scotland, dating from about 3600 BC A. Watts has pointed out that this area has an unusually dense early settlement in Scotland. AWR Whittle has made the investment in a European context and highlighted by a hall in Cambridgeshire and Fengate in the rarity of such large Neolithic timber houses.

The building was excavated in 1977-1980 by N. Reynolds and I. Ralston. One of the factors for the selection of Balbridie structure was the quality of the details in the photos. They showed an apparently isolated, rectangular structure of about 26 × 13 m, with a number of internal structures. The best parallel for a building of this size in Scotland was in the mid- 1960s by B. Hope -Taylor in Doon Hill, near Dunbar, East Lothian examined Halla A. The Doon Hill structure announced Balbridie the feature of bebogenen gable. Differences in detail between the two structures could be partly explained by the strong erosion on the southern side. The exchange of the woods testifies to a long life of the building, which burned down in about 3250 BC.

Small finds were made only a few. Flints, fragments of a kind Unstan goods and tiny amounts of burnt bone. Emmer was the most important cereal.

Pictures of Balbridie

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