Posted on 12/08/2019 7:09:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The skeletal remains are thought to date from the 15th Century, when Clan Ross and Clan Mackay fought out a terrifying rivalry in the area that arguably peaked with the Battle of Tarbat in the 1480s,
Then, Clan Ross cornered a raiding party of Clan Mackay with many killed in the encounter. Survivors of the attack sought sanctuary in the church, but the Rosses set fire to it, killing all those hiding inside...
She said the men and skulls were buried in the most prominent part of the church, in the mouth of the crypt directly under the nave.
Dr Spall said: "At this time, burials were incredibly orthodox so this deviates massively from what you would expect to find.
"The Ross and Mackay feud was a very horrible conflict. What we are alluding to is that if these men were not directly linked to these documented events, they are linked to this period...
She added that DNA analysis will help to establish whether these men were related with isotope analysis to offer further insight into the diet of those buried at the site....
More than 170 skeletons, including those of 40 children, have been found under the church with the site spanning five key time periods.
It was first occupied during the 6th to 7th Centuries, when the land was used as a Pictish farmstead. It then became an important Pictish monastery, which was destroyed around 800AD by a Viking raid.
(Excerpt) Read more at scotsman.com ...
A 3D visualisation of two of the 15th Century skulls. One (right) shows a fatal sword wound that removed a portion of the man's face and a blade cut above his left eye which was inflicted around the time of death. PIC: Visualising Heritage, University of Bradford.
The burial plot which shows one of two skeletons surrounded by the four skulls. PIC: FAS Heritage.
Yikes!
They didn’t mess around.
I've adapted this joke I'd heard many years ago, for use with Islam, but here's the original as I remember it -- during a gig, a musician was playing in a bar in Canada, and suddenly in the darkness, in English with a brogue, someone bellowed, "aw, shut ya gob!" then the two descendants of Scotland started bustin' up the place. As the musician put it, they were locked in their lifelong struggle with their mortal enemy -- other Scots. Hey, it's okay for me to hit my own... :^)
"So, we just lit all the candles at once. Was that wrong?"
The mystery is, who buried the dead? Sounds like they were in a hurry, so it could have been either side.
Any relation to clan Malarkey?
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state,
With fifty file of Burmans
To open him Heaven’s gate.
Ok, Scots.
And only four.
Close enough.
:^)
A chieftain’s daughter seemed the maid;
Her satin snood, her silken plaid,
Her golden brooch, such birth betrayed.
And seldom was a snood amid
Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid,
Whose glossy black to shame might bring
The plumage of the raven’s wing;
And seldom o’er a breast so fair
Mantled a plaid with modest care,
And never brooch the folds combined
Above a heart more good and kind.
So Ghidorah is Scottish.
I thought he was wearing a kilt when he was burning down Tokyo.
“Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below—
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know...
For the Burmans said
That a white man’s head
Must be paid for with heads five-score.”
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_gravehundred.htm
That was Godzilla. ;^)
Ay, and he looked good wearing it, too!
Dick Gaughan - Bonnie Jeannie o’Bethelnie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4umgwwr68
and of course, we’ll all one big happy people now...
Julie Fowlis - Blackbird (Lon-dubh)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzetQfKwbE
Dental work looks British.
/rimshot!
Great taste, fewer fillings.
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