Carn Glas burial site is on a moor above Inverness
Posted on 09/27/2023 7:30:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Carn Glas, near Inverness, is thought to date to the Neolithic period and be about 5,000 years old.
It is Scotland's longest chambered cairn, measuring 116m (380ft) in length.
Bones were removed from the site on Essich Moor by antiquarians in 1918, according to Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
The new photographs include images in false colours that clearly show the shape of Carn Glas...
HES describes Carn Glas as having significant archaeological importance due to its potential for improving understanding of Neolithic rituals and funeral practices.
It comprises three interlinked cairns.
Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a stone circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness.
Chambered cairns are found elsewhere in Scotland, although not all of the same construction.
Little remains of some after they robbed of stone for building dykes around fields on crofts or farms
One site in Dumfries and Galloway - called Cairn Holy II - is said to be the tomb of a mythical Scottish king called Galdus.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
It just Old Tom, looking for the feathery he shanked.
#5 at Inverness is tough hole.
“One site in Dumfries and Galloway - called Cairn Holy II - is said to be the tomb of a mythical Scottish king called Galdus.”
Except the Scots didn’t live anywhere near Scotland 5,000 years ago.
Very cool find. What I find fascinating too are the LIDAR scans which look under the earth and foliage and such and give a fascinating look at places like this to reveal previously unknown facts about structures and whatnot. Pretty cool stuff.
I imagine in a few years or so, just like Google maps, there will be LIDAR maps of many places al. Over the world that we can check out
Very nice images, I'd have posted 'em, but they were portrait instead of landscape, ironically. :^)
Quite right. :^)
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True! My ancestors became Scots in the 12th century when they were granted land by Kind David after fighting with him in battle. They went to Scotland from Denmark, Wales, and were Norse Vikings. That’s as far back as I could trace them. None are there now. They are here with some being in Germany.
I believe before the 12th century, it was Picts and Celts in the country known as Scotland.
I was doing genealogical research of my mom’s ancestors in East Yorkshire, England and I stumbled upon some great legends about fairies partying and dancing in a mound. The mound wasn’t marked on Google Maps and it took me a while to find it. I eventually located it and marked it.
In the past 12 to 18 months, a million people have looked at that spot I identified on Google Maps! I was shocked when I got a hit within a day or two of locating it, but am super-shocked that a million people have looked at it!
Unfortunately, I didn’t save the location and I cannot find a way for Google to let me locate the site I marked, so I lost it!
"The ancient East Yorkshire monument that's home to drunken fairies"
Willy Howe is known as the setting for a 12th century folk tale
Heritage at Risk 2020. Willy Howe barrow, Wold Newton Road, Burton Fleming, Driffield, Yorkshire. TA06167234. Aerial view of barrow from north west.
Lat/Long: 54.136265955752286, -0.37658761643696775
Google Maps link to Willy Howe Mound, Thwing, Driffield YO25 3HW, United Kingdom
Right, but even the Celts and Picts weren’t there that far back in the stone age. They probably invaded Europe in the early Bronze Age, around the time the Greeks were invading Greece.
I have not studied back that far. I explored my ancestor’s history and that’s as far back as I could get. We are Scots on my paternal grandfather’s side and Irish on my paternal grandmother’s side. We know nothing about my mom’s side. Most people where I live in the Appalachians trace back to Scotland and Ireland.
My baby brother could get a part in a Viking movie.
I’m going to study the history prior to the Picts and Celts. I love history!
E Yorkshire, so, not all of them are fairies, but all of them are drunk. ;^)
Britain’s 12th c must have been a fun time, other than the highwaymen and civil wars and whatnot. 13th wasn’t bad either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Rhymer
“I’m going to study the history prior to the Picts and Celts.”
Well, the problem with that is it’s into prehistory and not history. The people who were there first didn’t leave any written records. All we have are stone age monuments similar to Stonehenge and some archaeological remains to go off, maybe a cave painting here or there.
We have a lot from DNA analysis now too, but the guys classifying groups that ancient by their DNA give them a different name than the archaeologists who are digging up their graves assign to them. So if you want to get a fuller picture you have to figure out that the group the DNA guys called “X” is probably the same group the archaeologists call “Y”. They’re just labelled with different names depending on who is talking about them.
Way over my head! I did notice the 5000-year reference though and knew Scotland wasn’t a country then. The tomb is not Scots, it’s just on Scottish territory NOW.
Most little girls wanted to be nurses and secretaries when I was a kid. I wanted to be an archaeologist. 🙄 That was my dream!
When Rome was in the last years of decline in Britain, organized groups of raiders were making the short trip to what is now Scotland from Ireland to burn, steal and pillage-some of them apparently stayed after awhile-the Romans and Brits called them “Scots”-probably a mix of Celt and maybe Norse.
My ancestors were from Spain-Pyrenees, mostly-a couple of Native Americans, and one immigrant originally from W Prussia, but that was very recent-early 19th century. I have a keen interest in where people came from and why-one of my cousins married an archaeologist who invited my 1st hubby and I to go and work on several digs in both Mexico and NM-Paleo-Indian and later Native stuff-fascinating-you can pick up things like arrowheads, pieces of pottery, ornaments-just holding those thing in your hand is a rush because the detailing is so intricate and pretty, but your pockets, packs, etc have to be emptied every day at closing time-you are not allowed to even keep a stick from any site-it all goes to study and then exhibit in museums...
Super cool
How beautiful! Think how ethereal it must have been in ancient days on a misty morning, with no ATV tracks all over the place.
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