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Posted on 09/04/2010 11:53:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 4,000-year-old skeleton, known as the Queen of the Inch, is to be re-interred in the tiny island of Inchmarnock in the Firth of Clyde.
The grave was found by a farmer in the 1950s as he ploughed a field.
Preserved in an ancient cist, the remains included a necklace and dagger.
Despite being examined by archaeologists and reburied in the 1960s, the skeleton was recently exhumed and studied using modern research techniques.
Scientists have since been able to determine that the woman lived on Inchmarnock and came from the Clyde Estuary and that she did not eat seafood, despite the fact she lived on an island.
Anne Spiers, curator of archaeology at Bute Museum, said: "She must have been a queen or chieftain or something very important in her own right.
"There were plenty of people who lived on the island but very very few were given cist burials and with something as spectacular as the necklace, which obviously she was allowed to keep. It was buried with her. It didn't pass on to anyone else."
...The current owner of Inchmarnock Island, Lord Smith of Kelvin, said it was now time for the remains to be reburied.
He said: "It right that she goes back. When you speak with the researchers and scientists, obviously they wanted her for a period of time.
"But I was always clear that once they had actually looked at her properly, because we all need to understand what her forebears were like and what they did and so on, she had to go back.
"It's where she belongs and it's where she was buried and that's where she's going back to, to rest for ever."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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Remarkably high cheek bones.
I’d say she is Magyar except I don’t know that they had gotten that far thart early. Maybe Finnic?
far thart? What is that some kind of *Magyar code?!?!?* ;’)
Far athwart?
Farquahart?
I didn’t think they had gotten that far that early.
A 4,000-year-old skeleton, known as the Queen of the Inch,
'Queen', huh? But you what they said about her when she was alive, right?
Giver her an inch and she'll take a mile.
Looks like some of my Cousins, Irish, needs freckles though.
She lived on an island, ate no fish, obviously she was a prehistoric hooker.
Or maybe a vegetarian.
Wait, they’re the same thing, aren’t they?
Remarkably high cheek bones.Very prominent.
I didn't think they had gotten that far that early.The Celts came out of Central Asia; the inhabitants of what is now Scotland but 4000 years ago could have come from farther north; the "Red Paint People" documentary touches on the work of a Scandinavian prof who studied the cairn monuments of the Arctic, which are found across the top of Asia as well as the Americas, but aren't associated with any known / surviving ethnic group.
Probably something like “Queen of the Cubits”.
Interesting!
I thought all of Europe went metric?
Europe did, but *this* happened in Scotland! ;’)
Thats funny right there. Who knows, she may be one of my ancestors.
I very much agree with that sentiment.
Beaker culture?
“...The current owner of Inchmarnock Island, Lord Smith of Kelvin, said it was now time for the remains to be reburied. “
She died 4,000 years ago.
I think that is carrying sentimentalism as far as the Indians who wanted Kennebec Man undisturbed.
She belongs in a museum for future study.
I hope that genetic testing was also done, or at least a usable sample retained.
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