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Archaeologists find 'lost' medieval village... [Scotland]
Culture24 ^ | 28 April 2014 | Ben Miller

Posted on 05/01/2014 12:13:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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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

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

1 posted on 05/01/2014 12:13:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 05/01/2014 12:13:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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3 posted on 05/01/2014 12:18:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


4 posted on 05/01/2014 12:19:23 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

‘Ah, Shakespeare.’


5 posted on 05/01/2014 12:25:29 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SunkenCiv

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?


6 posted on 05/01/2014 12:52:01 AM PDT by Jemian
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“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.

7 posted on 05/01/2014 2:37:42 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Two pottery sherds from stoneware bottles

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

8 posted on 05/01/2014 2:47:38 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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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.

9 posted on 05/01/2014 2:50:00 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: SunkenCiv

coins including an American cent,

Obviously dropped by some wayward time traveler....


10 posted on 05/01/2014 3:18:58 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: SunkenCiv
… coins including an American cent…
Prior to 1645?
11 posted on 05/01/2014 3:23:27 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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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. ;-)
12 posted on 05/01/2014 3:51:26 AM PDT by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: exDemMom

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


13 posted on 05/01/2014 4:03:06 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Jemian

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.


14 posted on 05/01/2014 5:32:11 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: raybbr

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


15 posted on 05/01/2014 5:34:01 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: FrdmLvr

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.


16 posted on 05/01/2014 5:40:44 AM PDT by Jemian
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Edit on my previos post: “they didn’t find anything PRIOR to the years cited...”


17 posted on 05/01/2014 5:42:04 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: SunkenCiv

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?


18 posted on 05/01/2014 7:05:21 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Brigadoon?


19 posted on 05/01/2014 7:08:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Jemian

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


20 posted on 05/01/2014 7:10:01 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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