Posted on 03/12/2008 5:04:06 PM PDT by blam
Irish and Dutch vessels found in Scottish graves
Evidence that some of our prehistoric ancestors travelled considerable distances has come from two graves in Upper Largie, near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute.
One grave contained three distinctive beakers which Alison Sheridan, of the National Museums Scotland, describes as belonging to an early, international style, best paralleled by finds from the lower Rhine region of the modern-day Netherlands. Radiocarbon dates of 2500-2280 BC from hazel charcoal from within the grave confirms an early Bronze Age date.
Though no bone was found because of the acidic nature of the local soils, the way that two of the pots had been crushed in situ suggests that the deceased was buried in a wooden coffin and covered by a stone cairn, which then fell onto the pots once the timber collapsed. The grave was surrounded by a ring ditch, about 5.5 metres in diameter, marked by posts; just to the south lay an associated arc of four larger pits that also held posts. Martin Cook, AOC Archaeology Project Officer, who directed the excavation, said the style of burial made it likely that the grave was that of a Dutch migrant.
A second grave was dug at a later date, cutting through the ring ditch, and this contained a highly unusual bowl whose upper part is of the classic Irish style current around 2150 BC but whose four stubby feet are a Yorkshire feature. This so-called ‘hybrid polypod food vessel’ indicates the range of stylistic influences on the Kilmartin valley, an area of west Scotland with an unusually high number of standing stones, cairns and chambered tombs, during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
The excavations by AOC Archaeology are funded by quarry operator M & K McLeod Ltd.
GGG Ping.
Mystery of Aunt Pete's message in a bottle solved by soldier's grandson
Anna’ if you un dare to come back to Scotland, we be puttin’ more o’ ya in graves.
Bute Huh?
Must be in Montana...
Look et those Mesas ain’t they buttes!
A shame, no photo.
Thanks for posting the link to Aunt Pete message in a bottle. Lovely story.
Yep, went from “Aunt Pete” to Irish Poofter to
Spains entry to Eurovision 08, Dance the Chikichiki!
Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
Frisians doing the work Picts won't do.
I love these threads, they show the beauty of our world.
We always make the mistake that we are so smart and these people could not think for their own. Well they got around, constricted things that worked and managed to improve crops.
Bump for later! (possible family connection)
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Ostfrisians?
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