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tiompan wrote:
It's been mentioned a few times here ,but a perfectly natural esker .
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_104/104_048_062.pdf
So basically the Bronze Age inhabitants of the area appended a cairn with cist onto a naturally occuring feature to achieve the desired 'Serpent' effect? I'm gonna have to go have another look one day.....

GLADMAN wrote:
tiompan wrote:
It's been mentioned a few times here ,but a perfectly natural esker .
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_104/104_048_062.pdf
So basically the Bronze Age inhabitants of the area appended a cairn with cist onto a naturally occuring feature to achieve the desired 'Serpent' effect? I'm gonna have to go have another look one day.....
Yep . Wormy Hillock henge is the same although the "serpent" and "Wormy" are modern associations . Diarmid's grave ,a four poster in Glenshee ,built on top of a moraine is another , lots of "fairy mounds "/ tom na sidhe etc with burials ,standing stones etc are often moraines .As well as the shape which may have been the inspiration .B.A . cists are found in modern gravel quarries where the shape is obviously not important but the material is easy to dig .