Scots cornfield reveals Stone Age farmhouse
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeCountry: Scotland County: Perth and KinrossInternal Links:
THE remains of a Stone Age farmhouse have been uncovered by archaeologists in a cornfield in Perthshire.
The 6,000-year-old home, complete with a living area, bedroom and cooking area, lies close to Britain?s longest Stone Age burial cairn near Callander.
Historians believe that it and the Auchenlaich cairn, which may contain the remains of Stone Age families, were part of the same Neolithic settlement.
The discovery, by archaeologists from the universities of Glasgow and Stirling, is one of two such structures uncovered in Scotland. The other is at Balbridie, Deeside.
Gordon Barclay, an archaeologist from Stirling University, said: ?We have found smaller Neolithic structures before but this type of enormous timber building is only the second of its kind ever found. This is a very important site, even longer and possibly even older than what we have found before. There is nothing like it anywhere else in Europe.?
Full Story: The Times
BY GILLIAN HARRIS, SCOTLAND CORRESPONDENT
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