Human remains found in Bronze Age pots (Scotland)

BBC ^ | March 9, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Two Bronze Age burial pots containing human remains have been found at the base of a standing stone in Angus.

Archaeologists excavated the ground around the Carlinwell Stone at Airlie, near Kirriemuir, after it fell over earlier in the winter.

Both pots - known as collared urns - could be up to 4,000 years old and were typically used in early Bronze age cremation burials.

The 7ft (2.1m) high monolith will be re-erected on Friday.

One of the pots is about 4in (10cm) in diameter, and the other is about 8in, the archaeologists said.

Melanie Johnson, from CFA Archaeology of Musselburgh, said: "The pots are typical of early Bronze Age cremation burials.

"People were burned on pyres and their remains gathered, put into pots and buried upside down in a pit."

[decimon]

Pit pot ping.

[de.rm]

..the mouse ran up the clock. . . . oh , wait

[ReverendJames]

Haggis?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Haggis?

Ya beat me by a few minutes.

[ReverendJames]

GMTA

[FroggyTheGremlim]

GMTA?

We need a FRAD.

.

(Free Republic Acronym Decoder)

[ReverendJames]

It means: Great Minds Think Alike. Somebody here pulled that on me a while back.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Soylent Green, Bronze-Age Style ?

[mad_as_he$$]

lol......

[mountainlion]

They could have written this part different.

“”There was a fashion for putting up rubbing stones for cows during the 19th Century to stop them ruining the dykes by pushing against them,”

[Tax-chick]

Ping

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I suspect someone was making a Haggis!

[dayglored]

> They could have written this part different. “”There was a fashion for putting up rubbing stones for cows during the 19th Century to stop them ruining the dykes by pushing against them,”

Nah, because then it wouldn't have been so funny.

"Cows pushing against dykes and ruining them" sounds like some sort of odd all-women fertility ritual involving defloration. But "rubbing stones" sound like fun... in a large sort of way...

Yikes, dykes.

[bunkerhill7]

Human remains found in Bronze Age pots (Scotland)

next to a potful of bronzed baby shoes

[FroggyTheGremlim]

OK. It took me about a year to figure out IBTZ.

But I still haven’t figured out BBBT yet.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ReverendJames]

BBBT I think has something to do with bump to the top but later or something like that. Perhaps someone reading this thread can answer better.

[blam]

"Pit pot ping."

Ping pong with pit pots, eh?

[EternalVigilance]

Prehistoric Persons Potted in a Pit Ping, Perhaps.