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Pictish and earlier archaeological sites One of the most exciting and lul"\cys and excavations has revealed cemeteries of low. nat lopped mounds dating bel"'een the third and eleventh centuries AD. Air phOlography has revealed at least thiny cropmark sq uare barrow cemeteries. In many of the cemeteries there are also round barrows. The vast majority lie between the Forth and the N. Esk. but there are a few in Dumfries and Galloway. Aberdeenshire. Moray and Highland. Allhough none of the cemeteries so far discovered is very large. the cropmarks of their ..hallow enclosing ditches are very tenuous. and repeated annual survey occasionally reveal.!> new barrows and new details. The nearest and best structural parallels for most of these cropmark burial monuments are in east Yorkshire. where some cemeteries date to the early Iron Age and others to the Roman period. However. some of the cemeteries in Scotland include square barrows with ditches interrupted at the corners which seem highly comparable to some of the broadly Pictish mounds described below. More enigmatic are the few much larger enclosures with interrupted corners which have been di scovered in recent air photography of eastern Scotland. The broadly Pictish barrow

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