Posted on 07/27/2012 9:55:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Trusty's Hill, near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway, is best known for the Pictish Symbols carved into a natural rock outcrop at the fort's entrance. However, in recent years, many historians have begun to doubt whether these carvings were genuine, some even suggesting that the carvings are forgeries...
As well as an abundance of domestic waste, including animal bones, stone and metal tools and a spindle whorl, from 'dark soil' occupation deposits sealed by the collapsed ramparts of the fort, the excavators recovered numerous crucible and clay mould fragments, metalworking debris and a variety of iron pins and a possible Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, indicating the production of high status jewellery within the site... E-ware pottery from a secure occupation context... not only dates to the late sixth or early seventh centuries AD, exactly the right time for when Pictish Symbols were being carved in Scotland, but as an import from Western France is associated with high status, often royal, sites in Atlantic Britain such as Dunadd, Dumbarton Rock and Whithorn...
The excavation also revealed that the stone ramparts were laced with large vertical oak posts and that each of these was purposely set alight and stoked to the point where the stone rubble packed around them began to vitrify. Given the substantial fuel, oxygen and time required to accomplish this, it is likely that this deliberate and spectacular destruction of the ramparts took many days, even weeks, to complete...
...a team of stone conservators from the Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation LLP undertook a laser scan survey of the Pictish Symbol Stone... to enable specialist examination of the detail of how the Pictish Carvings were made and the translation of an ogham inscription that has been previously noted along the edge of the carved stone
(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...
The Picts are generally believed to have been Celts, related to the Brythons of the southern island conquered by the Romans.
I feel like I am reading a bunch of run on sentences.
Watch your P's and Q's.
Two different DNA studies did not find any difference between the Picts and other people in the region.
Genetically, they're basically the same people...differences were culturally and probably due to some period of relative isolation.
My apologies.
Just had to read it a few times. LOL. Interesting stuff.
I ‘ve often wondered if the Sarmatian presence in Roman times was the reason for all the black haired Scots in history.
Thanks blam!
It may have left a trail of DNA, but unlikely, given that Scotland is a maritime country, many ports, heh heh...
There apparently was another Indo-European language spoken in the British Isles before the Celts arrived, or at least some of the river names seem to indicate that.
One example of the differences:
"Pinmore" (a place in Ayrshire mentioned in one of Dorothy Sayers' mysteries) is Q-Celtic and means "big hill."
Bryn Mawr has the same meaning but is P-Celtic.
Nope.
With the Youtube Downloader you can copy them to your HD before they are pulled. Of course it doesn’t always work, but its better than not getting them.
cahokia site:freerepublic.com
That’s a good idea, I may try that. I’ve got that somewhere, and could run with the laptop over to a restaurant with wi-fi.
Hey, blam, those tartans didn’t get from Central Asia to the Scottish highlands by themselves. :’)
VR, I think the last native speaker of Cornish died around 1900-1905.
I haven’t used mine in a while, might need updated
Yes, there is a new version.
Thanks. Will check it out.
Dale Drinnon, in his Frontiers of Anthropology blog, examined this issue in some detail this spring. He presented a great amount of evidence showing that the Picts were descended from relatively short, dark people who migrated from the northern Baltic-Northern Scandinavia area, and that those people were the original (i.e., pre-Germanic) inhabitants of that area.
Thanks for the info.
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