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Dunning Iron Age find shows Roman-Pictish link
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| August 31st 2011
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Posted on 09/01/2011 6:35:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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A number of Roman trade goods were found inside the broch
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posted on
09/01/2011 6:35:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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09/01/2011 6:37:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Always control the high ground, some rules never change.
To: SunkenCiv
This Thread Is Useless Without Picts.
To: SunkenCiv
Serf archaeologists?
Watching a game also, just checking in.
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posted on
09/01/2011 6:43:41 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: SunkenCiv
A wide range of Roman trade goods have been discovered in the broch, including a bronze patera, a glass vessel and an unusual lead bowl. Amazing they found any artifacts -- you'd expect the site to be Pict clean...
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posted on
09/01/2011 6:46:15 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Roman the countryside)
To: Charles Henrickson
This Thread Is Useless Without Picts.One of the all-time best. Bravo.
To: SunkenCiv
Archaeologists found some of the artifacts by just Roman around.
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posted on
09/01/2011 6:55:03 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Charles Henrickson
Looks like she wants her bronze patera back.
To: SunkenCiv
I’ll bet a lot of people got Kelt over that.
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posted on
09/01/2011 8:02:58 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: justa-hairyape
She was a b##ch in that movie!
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posted on
09/01/2011 8:13:55 PM PDT
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Ciexyz
To: Ciexyz
Nothing more angry then a woman without a tongue. She was amazing in that last scene when she came into that Fort on her white horse. Would not want her tracking me down.
To: Charles Henrickson
"This Thread Is Useless Without Picts."
I guess there were shortages of cameras and portrait painters during their time. Romans described them as being short and dark, so I reckon that they were pretty short and pretty dark. They may have come from some part of India and settled in the area of southern Germany before moving on to the area of Scotland.
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posted on
09/01/2011 8:30:27 PM PDT
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familyop
("Plan? There ain't no plan!" --Pigkiller, "Beyond Thunderdome")
To: familyop
Trouble with that theory is that there is no evidence of dark skin in the Scottish. They are as white as they come. Also, the Romans would not need to build a wall the breadth of the island to keep out some short people. The Romans were getting their buts handed to them on silver platters. They had to build a giant wall which got overrun and rebuilt numerous times.
My surname line comes from the Pictish area of Scotland. We held manors and some other buildings in areas that trace back to Pictish known history. Of course long after the Romans the Vikings did a number on the Pictish Kings, they certainly did not kill all the Picts. Mostly the Picts in the far north were wiped out.
To: Charles Henrickson; Red_Devil 232; mikrofon; blam; decimon
They had good teeth up there because so many studied tanistry.
[crickets chirping]
Sure it sucks, but you loched up all the good ones.
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09/02/2011 2:27:57 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: justa-hairyape
The Romans didn’t keep getting their butts handed to them, there simply wasn’t anything worth the cash and effort n of Hadrian’s Wall. In a way that may have been a consequence of Trajan’s conquest of Dacia, which was the largest single payoff in Roman history (the gold mines). His successor was Hadrian, who wanted to bang little boys in the butt undisturbed, and had to be talked out of retreating from Dacia, but who did retreat from the Persian Gulf, built the Wall. And once the wall was up, the frontier was quiet, other than the considerable economic activity. After the Romans left, part of the wall was used as a quarry for building stone. Most of the rest of the wall had been made of turf, as the Antonine Wall had been some miles to the north.
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09/02/2011 2:47:07 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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09/02/2011 2:50:09 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Fine. Show me other examples of these Roman built walls that were meant to keep out entire nations.
To: SunkenCiv
Oh. Another point. Some of the losing Celtic royalty retreated into Pictland. So at least the Lowlands were rich in targets. They were later followed by the losing Anglo-Saxon royalty as they fled the Normans. They were a bunch of reasons why a Scottish King eventually sat on the English throne.
To: justa-hairyape; SunkenCiv
Show me other examples of these Roman built walls that were meant to keep out entire nations.Limes Germanicus. Limes Tripolitanus.
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