Queen of the Inch to be re-interred [ Inchmarnock in the Firth of Clyde ]

BBC ^ | August 2010 | unattributed

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[BenLurkin]

Remarkably high cheek bones.

[sionnsar]

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[BenLurkin]

I’d say she is Magyar except I don’t know that they had gotten that far thart early. Maybe Finnic?

[SunkenCiv]

far thart? What is that some kind of *Magyar code?!?!?* ;’)

Far athwart?

Farquahart?

[BenLurkin]

I didn’t think they had gotten that far that early.

[curmudgeonII]

Good for Lord Smith.
I wish that more would treat the remains of the departed [no matter how long they've been dead] with the respect to which they are entitled.

[Condor51]

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.

[Little Bill]

Looks like some of my Cousins, Irish, needs freckles though.

[SunkenCiv]

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?

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably something like “Queen of the Cubits”.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[TrueKnightGalahad]

I thought all of Europe went metric?

[SunkenCiv]

Europe did, but *this* happened in Scotland! ;’)

[rdl6989]

Thats funny right there. Who knows, she may be one of my ancestors.

[Tainan]

I very much agree with that sentiment.

[ZULU]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

I hope that genetic testing was also done, or at least a usable sample retained.