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Human remains found in Bronze Age pots (Scotland)
BBC ^ | March 9, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 03/09/2011 2:34:13 PM PST by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; scotland; scotlandyet
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To: blam
Ping pong with pit pots, eh?

We could go back and forth with this but...

21 posted on 03/09/2011 5:25:21 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon; SunkenCiv

Whew! The headline read like my ancestors might be cannibals.

Angles and Saxons—the other white meat.


23 posted on 03/10/2011 6:06:44 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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The headline read like my ancestors might be cannibals.

Might have been and regardless of who they were.

24 posted on 03/10/2011 6:11:09 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

Maybe they were just sloppy housekeepers.


25 posted on 03/10/2011 9:42:22 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: wildbill

Hey, nothin’ would surprise me about those haggis-eatin’, claymore swingin’, kilt-wearin’ bastards.

;’) It’s okay, I can say that about my own people. :’)


26 posted on 03/11/2011 3:32:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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