An investigation of an Aberdeenshire ritual landscape: a site of human sacrifice associated with Venus.
A group of intervisible prehistoric monuments delineate a ritual landscape of 10 kilometres near Hatton of Fintray, Aberdeenshire. They act as back and foresights on solar and lunar horizon rising and setting extremes when viewed one from another. The identities of the local deities, syncretised as...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 137; no. 1-4; pp. 173 - 210 |
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Mar-Dec 2021
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