Show threadThis Is My GlasgowApr 29

A thousand years ago, Doomsterhill is thought to have been meeting place for the parliament of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde, and before that it may have started life as a massive neolithic or bronze age burial mound around 4,000 years ago.

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This Is My GlasgowApr 29

Part of an artwork called Assembly in the Riverside Housing Estate in the Govan area of Glasgow. Created by Matt Baker in 2012, it marks three possibly locations for the lost Doomster Hill. A large prominent man-made hill, some 45 metres in diametre, it was levelled in the 1850s as part of the industrial development of Govan.

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