One of the crannogs in the Western Isles has a stone causeway. Credit: Dr Fraser Sturt
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 ...
One of the crannogs in the Western Isles has a stone causeway. Credit: Dr Fraser Sturt
If you see an undead Fred in Skara Brae, just throw rocks.
There actually is a Skara Brae? I thought that was made up for the Bard’s Tale.
“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/
Thanks, SunkenCiv!
I love it when the “experts” are proven correct!!!
Ten bucks says there’s a hole and a flag there.
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!”
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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.
If you see an undead Fred in Skara Brae, just throw rocks.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not advisable to throw any rocks at any Fred.( grin)
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”.
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.
It’s America. 99.99% of the stuff here is from 1492 or later.
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See, China is feeling their inner Scotsman by building their sea islands.
And I thought it was an album by an Irish folk group...
Skara-Brae,
Fascinating!
Heck, anything older than a Mustang is considered historic by some. By many, even.
Beautiful. Did they grow crannog berries on them?
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).
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