[nickcarraway]

Scots Wha Hae

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"Excellent teeth."
Guess this aspect just got away from them at some point.

[bitt]

'The only comparable feast was held near Northampton in the Bronze Age (2,500-750BC) where the discovery of mounds of pips pointed to a pudding course absent at Ferrybridge.'

"pips". are pips, "pits"?

a pudding with some sort of fruit with seeds? or cherry pits?

I don't want to think about a mound of 'pips", tho...

[potlatch]

Ping.

[Former Dodger]

A Highland Ping!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"The evidence suggests that the site of the burial may have been venerated for all those years after his death - and then became a place for the tribes to rally and perhaps remember a great national leader of the past."

Certainly not one of Specter's ancestors.

Interesting article. Thanks for posting.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

BUAIDH NO BAS

[ccmay]

If this guy was remembered 500 years after his death, you'd think the Roman historians would have made a note of him, or that his legend would have survived even until now.

I wonder if this was King Arthur?

-ccm

[Defiant]

The centuries-long tussle for prestige between England and Scotland may be about to end in victory for the clans, with new archaeological evidence suggesting that the first national leader of the British Isles was a Scot.

the 2,400-year-old grave is thought to have been a rallying-point

How does this lessen English prestige? The English didn't arive for another 1000 years.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoever this king is, the name is probably lost, and was long ago. However, here's something that is probably related:

Dalriada
Lyberty.com

There are two Dalriadas: that of northwest Ireland, and that of western Scotland... Dalridia is the Gaelic kingdom that, at least from the 5th century AD, extended on both sides of the North Channel and composed the northern part of the present County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and part of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll, in Scotland. In earlier times, Argyll had received extensive immigration from the Irish of Northern Ireland (known as "Scoti"), and had become an Irish (i.e., "Scottish") area. In the latter half of the 5th century, the ruling family of Irish Dalriada crossed into Scottish Dalriada and made Dunadd and Dunolly its chief strongholds. Irish Dalriada gradually declined; and after the Viking invasions early in the 9th century, it lost all political identity.

Thanks Blam.

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[MacDorcha]

Celtic Ping list!

[Tribune7]

The remains of a mysterious figure found in an Iron Age chariot burial under the A1M motorway

So, how long did they have to stop traffic.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Will this help the Scots win at Wimbledon?

[elli1]

The chariot under excavation Reconstruction of a chariot found at at Wetwang, E Yorkshire, in 2001.

More info here:

Oxford Archaeology>

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I was hoping that he was a pik.