Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. North-East Perth. An Archaeological Landscape. 300 × 210mm. Pp. x + 179 + many figs., pls. and maps. Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990. ISBN 0-11-493446-0. £35·00 (p/b).

1990 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-148
Author(s):  
Anne Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Royal Commission ◽  
North East ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Archaeological Landscape

Segmented Embanked Pit-Alignments in the North York Moors: A Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England

1993 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 383-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Lofthouse
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
And Function

This report describes a group of distinctive earthworks in the north-east of the North York Moors (fig. 1) that, prior to investigation by the RCHME, had been categorised as double pit-alignments. The earthworks consist of two or three pairs of pits, with the spoil from the pits spread into parallel enclosing banks. The orientation of the segments is fairly consistent along an axis north-west to south-east; in each case there seems to be a tangential alignment on burial mounds, putatively Bronze Age in date, which may give a clue as to their age and function.

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