Archaeologists find 'lost' medieval village... [Scotland]

Culture24 ^ | 28 April 2014 | Ben Miller

[SunkenCiv]

full title, "Archaeologists find 'lost' medieval village full of pottery, coins and bones in Scottish Borders".

Documentary research suggested a range of buildings were spread over a large area along the river Tweed © Guard Archaeology Ltd

[SunkenCiv]

[JoeProBono]

[Monterrosa-24]

So after Shakespeare and the Kings James Bible era and countless written sources we need to unearth a few coins and trinkets to tell us about life there??? Next they’ll be digging around Liverpool to tell us about the Beatles.

[onedoug]

‘Ah, Shakespeare.’

[Jemian]

Medieval? The medieval period began around 476 AD and ended around 1450-1492 AD. This hamlet is a little old to be labeled medieval. What ARE they teaching inschools nowadays?

[raybbr]

“The radiocarbon dates confirm activity in the period from 1472 to 1645.

Medieval? The medieval period began around 476 AD and ended around 1450-1492 AD.

Uh, looks like Medieval Times to me.

[exDemMom]

Two pottery sherds from stoneware bottles

Sherd = shard. I had to look that one up.

[exDemMom]

So after Shakespeare and the Kings James Bible era and countless written sources we need to unearth a few coins and trinkets to tell us about life there???

Most written sources give no real sense of how people actually lived. You only get that sense by examining where they lived and the objects they used in daily life.

[Adder]

coins including an American cent,

Obviously dropped by some wayward time traveler....

[R. Scott]

… coins including an American cent…

Prior to 1645?

[Pecos]

No doubt, brought back to Scotland by Henry Sinclair, the Earl of Rosslyn, who explored the North American continent in 1398. The Aztecs worked gold, so they could have worked copper, and the equivalent of a penny's worth of copper could have made it far enough north to have been traded to Sinclair, who could have brought it back to Scotland. Sinclair also had an Italian navigator, by the way. ;-)

[Vermont Lt]

The English butchered the original Scot language. The English wreck everything.

[FrdmLvr]

I thought that too, but then figured it was probably a village established in the medieval era but was still inhabited in the 1600’s, qualifying it as medieval.

[Jemian]

1472 - 1645 is just after the medieval period, not during. This, iirc, was the Tudor and Elizabethan period.

[Jemian]

I considered that, but nothing from the article suggests they’ve found anything from the years cited. The simplest explanation is the writer didn’t know history and just tossed the term “medieval” in on his own.

[Jemian]

Edit on my previos post: “they didn’t find anything PRIOR to the years cited...”

[left that other site]

1472 to 1645 would be “Renaissance”, not “Medieval”.

Of course, the remote location could have made life there “seem” Medieval.

JMO...I am not an Archaeologist. Just a Humble Bass Player...what do I know?

[BenLurkin]

Brigadoon?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Personally, I think of 476 AD as pre-Medieval, and part of the Dark Ages.