Professor Nancy Edwards said last year excavations focussed on the mound which was identified as an early Bronze Age cairn
Posted on 09/07/2011 4:11:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists are launching a new dig to try to unearth the secrets of a 9th Century stone monument on a prehistoric mound.
Bangor and Chester university experts will begin excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen, Denbighshire...
Last year excavations focussed on the mound, which was identified as an early Bronze Age cairn.
It followed on from one in the 18th Century.
Professor Nancy Edwards from Bangor University told BBC Radio Wales: "...This year we are going back to the cairn to one particular trench because we discovered evidence last year of the dig into the top of the cairn in 1773. This was at the point where the pillar had fallen and the local landowner Trevor Lloyd decided he was to resurrect it. He did this dig and claimed afterwards to have found a stone cist with a body in and pieces of silver and things. Now I think this is probably all legend rather than real."
...The Pillar of Eliseg was originally a tall stone cross but only part of a round shaft survives set within its original base.
It once bore a long Latin inscription saying that the cross was raised by Concenn, ruler of the kingdom of Powys, who died in AD 854, in memory of his great-grandfather, Eliseg, who had driven Anglo-Saxon invaders out of the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Professor Nancy Edwards said last year excavations focussed on the mound which was identified as an early Bronze Age cairn
found a stone cist
cist
noun /sist/ /kist/ cists, plural; kists, plural
A coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree
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.”
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looks like they found Eliseg’s Last Erection
Under the banner "Britain for Britons!"
In Wales, men don’t *need* Viagra.
See also “Wat’s Dyke”. :’)
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It’s interesting that Vortigern (a villain of sorts in the Arthurian legends) was already in the folklore in the 9th c. :’)
The truth is probably something else — the Saxons were probably already in Britain, and he joined forces with them in one of the internecine wars the led to the steady downward spiral of Celtic sovereignty on the island. One of the prospects for the historical King Arthur left his fortified capital with most of his army in order to fight and defeat one of the Germanic armies, and when he returned, a neighboring petty king had swung in and burned the city to the ground. IOW, I wouldn’t have blamed Vortigern one bit. :’)
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