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tiompan Jul 23, 2009 21:23:46
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
GLADMAN wrote:
Whoah...... there are some great points being raised here by NG. When do you draw the line under a sites period of active use in terms of serving the human spiritual condition?

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Interesting that there may be less of a tradition of summit burial in Scotland? Only been to about 20 tops, so can't really comment. Guess I need more fieldwork. England, too.

Surely a hill with a cairn on top that has at least a fair likelihood of being prehistoric (no matter how altered) could be considered to be a "sacred hill"?
Nearly every hill I know has a cairn on top .

D drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 23, 2009 21:33:00
Replying to tiompan

At Pitglassie, near Turriff, bodies of people were burned until they were ashes, then their remains were put into the soil in some sense of rebirth. There are two barrows in Pitglassie woods also. Maybe this happened in other parts of Scotland and therefore cairns of soil and stone rather than piles of stones would be used. These are common up here in North East Lediken. Cairneywhing etc. Then again apart from Bennachie there is nothing of real height in this corner.