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 ...
The Orkneys appear to have been inhabited and then abandoned a number of times over many thousands of years. When the Vikings arrived, there were people on the islands (the Shetlands, the Orkneys), but the inhabitants appear to have been few, and were wiped out. Even the Pictish placenames, whatever they were, got overwritten by the invaders.
There are two stone circles near Skara Brae, and loads of others all over Scotland.
Hey, I've never been to Spain, and I've never named a bullfrog. :^)
was the rain in the plain while you were in Spain?
But did you buy a Gremlin?
I would have, but William Shatner shot him.
Megalithic grave Harhoog In Keitum Sylt, Germany.
If the Doggerland had not drowned:
If the Doggerland had not drowned:>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If Doggerland had not drowned, there would of been a good chance that a much larger part of the World would still be speaking Gaelic and playing the bagpipes !
German men in skirts play Dudelsack, Video:
Love that German pipe music.
I found this one off your link, a German symphony orchestra
playing Amazing Grace in concert with the pipes, a wonderful Teutonic version with the penny whistle in lead, with violin played also by the conductor.
Amazing work!
Oh if the Celts could have ruled the world, LOL.
Even Better: German orchestra really hitting the German penny whistle interpretation ( Warning, get out the Kleenex tissue.)
Andre Rieu Amazing Grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GD-5mRyaJw
Much of Germany and Austria have very deep Celtic connections.
And it is my hunch that it forms a bond between much of France, Germany,Austraia, England and Ireland.
As the presence of megalithic architecture appears to suggest:
All the way down to Malta:
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