Posted on 05/01/2014 12:13:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
German and Dutch pots, jugs and mugs, coins including an American cent, spindles, a sheep skull and horse teeth have been found by archaeologists digging in the Scottish Borders, where doors integrated into walls have revealed a “lost” Medieval village of families, farmyards and hearths.
Between Edinburgh and the Northumberland National Park, the outskirts of Selkirk have previously been associated with the Battle of Philiphaugh, a 1645 victory for the Scottish Covenanter Army against their under-strength Royalist enemies...
A pipeline-laying project by Scottish Water, though, has found stone brick structures including two pivot stones, used as hinges for doors between the 14th and 16th centuries but turned into cobbling after their buildings were demolished.
Four coins, stone counters for games, burnt clay and fired fragments were also found...
“The radiocarbon dates confirm activity in the period from 1472 to 1645. Although the artefacts were recovered from the lower plough soil rather than sealed archaeological contexts, they too support a late 15th to 17th century date.
“Two pottery sherds from stoneware bottles, or possibly drinking mugs imported from Germany or Belgium, would date to that period. A fragment of a clay tobacco pipe identifies the maker as James Colquhoun, who manufactured pipes in Glasgow between 1660 and 1680.
“These artefacts also suggest that manufactured goods were being traded from the cities to the rural areas of Scotland.”
(Excerpt) Read more at culture24.org.uk ...
***“The radiocarbon dates confirm activity in the period from 1472 to 1645. **
Ending in the Plague years.
Yeah, my take on the headline was that it was still a working village that had been overlooked in the modern era.
Good idea, and that might account for all memory of the town having been lost.
‘In 1350, there was a great pestilence and mortality of men in the kingdom of Scotland, and this pestilence also raged for many years before and after in various parts of the world.’
Scotichronicon, John of Fordun
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/medievallife/blackdeath/index.asp
“...Most written sources give no real sense of how people actually lived. You only get that sense by examining where they lived and the objects they used in daily life...”
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins[a] and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?”
Obviously you’ve never been to Scotland. [ducks, runs]
You play a bass?!? You should switch to something more musical, like bagpipes! ;’)
Turns out that Brigadoon didn’t really vanish and then reappear, the witnesses were just drunk.
American Colonial Penny image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=american+colonial+penny&tbm=isch
Steeleye Span - Parcel of Rogues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLufwtSZiIs
Thanks exDemMom!
When posting this topic, I put both terms into the keywords.
Okay, so, I hadn’t actually done it yet, turns out that was a slightly earlier topic.
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Is that the one with President Jefferson Davis on it?
-PJ
The ‘Silian 3’ stone was discovered by chance alongside a stream in the Welsh village of Silian.
“Tis ok...
Thanks!
So, did the ancient Scots actually invent Communism???
What is the difference between a lawn mower and a bagpipe?
You can tune a lawn mower!
(Disclaimer: I am ON the Official FR Bagpipe Ping List! LOL!
It is a low volume ping list for a hig volume instrument.)
Ah, thanks, maybe another topic in the offing.
You paint with a wide brush, sir.
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