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Professor Nancy Edwards said last year excavations focussed on the mound which was identified as an early Bronze Age cairn

Archaeologists dig at Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen

1 posted on 09/07/2011 4:12:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I learned a new word:

found a stone cist

cist

noun /sist/  /kist/  cists, plural; kists, plural
A coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree

5 posted on 09/07/2011 4:26:35 PM PDT by DManA
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To: SunkenCiv
Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen:

Archaeologist #1,
“Hey man,dig this!”
Archaeologist #2,
“Dig what,man?
#!,
“Over here man,dig what's over here,I mean it's really far out man,you dig?”
#2,
“Wow man,I can dig it! What is it man?”
#!,
“Uh...I dunno man,dig?”
#2,
“Dig.”

6 posted on 09/07/2011 4:37:59 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("11/4/2008: The day America elected a pyromaniac in the middle of a fire storm.")
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To: SunkenCiv
Eliseg, who had driven Anglo-Saxon invaders out of the area.

Under the banner "Britain for Britons!"

9 posted on 09/07/2011 6:31:42 PM PDT by Oratam
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