The site of the fort at Craigie Hill is now heavily overgrown.Picture: HES
Posted on 10/22/2023 9:49:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Headlines were made in 1864 when a group of excavators uncovered evidence of an "ancient British city" near modern-day Edinburgh Airport...
Subsequent excavations in the 20th century found that the Craigie Hill site was not actually an "ancient British city" as claimed by the 1864 headlines, but the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, similar to others that were once ubiquitous in the Lothians...
The area around Edinburgh Airport is famous for its prehistoric settlements. In 1830, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a stone circle called the Huly Hill Cairn, which today stands preserved as a peculiar oddity given its proximity to the interchange of the M8 and M9 motorways.
The nearby Cat Stane, which is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, is today inaccessible to the public as it is situated within the present-day perimeter of Edinburgh Airport.
Over the generations the remains of nearly 1,700 hillforts have been discovered in Scotland as a whole, including dozens within miles of Edinburgh.
(Excerpt) Read more at edinburghlive.co.uk ...
The site of the fort at Craigie Hill is now heavily overgrown.Picture: HES
Thanks for your patience, I'm going to post three more without pinging, and then the Digest ping topic for this week.
Probably a small village or large hamlet.
OK then, when? And what?
YouTube style clickbait headlines don’t work anymore (and they never have worked for me.)
Oh really? You came right in to run your mouth, troll.
Oh, look, a pro-Russian troll! What a surprise.
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I was just there a few weeks ago.
Did you learn one weird trick?
When excavators uncovered an ‘ancient Scottish city’ near Edinburgh Airport
there fixed it.
The Scots were an Irish tribe living in Ireland until more than a century after the Romans left Britain.
There, fixed it.
oh thanks it jogged my memory,,, i recall that now
>> Did you learn one weird trick?
My point exactly.
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