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The Auld Wives' Lifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leslie Alcock
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This is an account of the severed heads on the Auld Wives' Lifts, Craigmaddie Muir, Scotland, by the Professor of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. The Auld Wives' Lifts is an object of interest and debate for geology, antiquarianism, folklore, vernacular art and, perhaps, Celtic iconography, and we are glad to give it publicity.

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Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 202 , July 1977, pp. 117 - 123
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1977

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