Prehistoric links between Scotland and the Netherlands Recent
analysis of 4,000-year-old pots recovered during an excavation
of two graves at Upper Largie, near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute
(Scotland), has provided exciting evidence linking prehistoric
Scotland with the Netherlands. Analysis of the pots by Alison
Sheridan, of National Museums Scotland, has revealed early
international-style Beakers of the type found around the lower
Rhine, that is modern-day Netherlands and a strange hybrid of
styles that suggest Irish and Yorkshire influences. "These finds
are very rare," said Martin Cook, the AOC Archaeology Project
Officer, who oversaw the excavations in 2005. " I think there
are three or four other examples that early in Scotland. The
excavations revealed two graves within a complex Neolithic and
Bronze Age ritual landscape composed of monuments including an
Early Neolithic cursus (long earthwork) and an Early Bronze Age
timber circle. Although no human remains were recovered in
either grave – bone does n