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Scotland's crannogs are older than Stonehenge
BBC ^ | June 13, 2019 | unattributed

Posted on 06/16/2019 6:51:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Crannogs were fortified settlements constructed on artificial islands in lochs.

It was thought they were first built in the Iron Age, a period that began around 800 BC.

But four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge's stone circle...

Another famous Neolithic site is Skara Brae, a village in Orkney inhabited between 3200 BC and 2200 BC...

They said it was possible other Scottish crannogs, and similar sites in Ireland, were also Neolithic.

Previously it was thought crannogs were built and re-used over a period of 2,500 years from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: crannogs; fartyshadesofgreen; godsgravesglyphs; ireland; neolithic; nessofbrodgar; orkney; scotland; scotlandyet; skarabrae; stennes
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One of the crannogs in the Western Isles has a stone causeway. Credit: Dr Fraser Sturt

Dr Fraser Sturt

1 posted on 06/16/2019 6:51:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

If you see an undead Fred in Skara Brae, just throw rocks.


2 posted on 06/16/2019 7:00:29 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: SunkenCiv

There actually is a Skara Brae? I thought that was made up for the Bard’s Tale.


3 posted on 06/16/2019 7:10:40 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

“Long before Stonehenge or even the Egyptian pyramids were built, Skara Brae was a thriving village. Step back 5,000 years in time to explore the best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe”

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/skara-brae/


4 posted on 06/16/2019 7:16:06 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks, SunkenCiv!

I love it when the “experts” are proven correct!!!


5 posted on 06/16/2019 7:21:22 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ten bucks says there’s a hole and a flag there.


6 posted on 06/16/2019 7:31:44 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rdl6989

My buddy who lives in Scotland gets a kick out of tourists going nuts over medieval sites. He says “you wanna look at old s#it? We’ve got some REALLY old s#it!”


7 posted on 06/16/2019 7:35:41 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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8 posted on 06/16/2019 7:37:57 PM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Along the lines of this subject I love this series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdhkuMTNWU


9 posted on 06/16/2019 7:43:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: bigbob

I’m not hip enough to know the difference between old and really old. I know the difference between new and those two though. The older don’t stick to your shoe.


10 posted on 06/16/2019 7:51:58 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: MrEdd; Fred Nerks

If you see an undead Fred in Skara Brae, just throw rocks.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Not advisable to throw any rocks at any Fred.( grin)


11 posted on 06/16/2019 7:56:02 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

FR is better than the travel channel. I can go to Scotland and see some really old stuff that I know won’t stick to my shoes cause it’s really old, and I just remembered I heard “to wear the fox hat”.


12 posted on 06/16/2019 8:03:44 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: bigbob

In many parts of the US, any building older than the Civil War is “historic,” and a town that has several such buildings surviving brags about its “historic downtown” even if most of the buildings look like post-WWII structures.


13 posted on 06/16/2019 8:04:18 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: bigbob

It’s America. 99.99% of the stuff here is from 1492 or later.

CC


14 posted on 06/16/2019 8:08:31 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: SunkenCiv

See, China is feeling their inner Scotsman by building their sea islands.


15 posted on 06/16/2019 8:11:52 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Tanniker Smith

And I thought it was an album by an Irish folk group...


16 posted on 06/16/2019 8:20:11 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: rdl6989

Skara-Brae,
Fascinating!


17 posted on 06/16/2019 8:22:38 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Heck, anything older than a Mustang is considered historic by some. By many, even.


18 posted on 06/16/2019 8:31:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SunkenCiv

Beautiful. Did they grow crannog berries on them?


19 posted on 06/16/2019 8:38:08 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: Tanniker Smith
The song I sing
Will tell the tale
Of a cold and wintery day.

When evil fled
And brave men bled
The Dark One came to stay.

Of castle walls
And torchlit halls
And a price men had to pay.

Till men of old
For blood and gold
Had rescued Skara Brae!

Besides its appearance in The Bard's Tale (and Bard's Tale III: The Thief of Fate as well), Skara Brae was also used as a name of a town in the Ultima series from Ultima IV: The False Prophet onwards, and is mentioned in the Wizardry games as well.

I played way too many CRPGs in the 1980s (and later too).

20 posted on 06/16/2019 8:57:42 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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