Megaliths
In Our Time: History
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The Role of Religion in the Construction of Stone Circles
Stone circles and other circular monuments seem to be very much more ritual and ceremonial spaces. At the same time you're seeing a change towards circular houses, which seem to have their origin alongside a whole series of other things up in Orkney. As well as stone circles we're getting timber circles, including concentric series of timber circles and nested inside each other. And I think all of these new forms of monumentality that are coming in - when you come to the start of the third millennium - are in some way related to houses.
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