[MR] BBC: Pictish Longhouse Excavated
Garth Groff via Atlantia
atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Tue Jul 25 02:30:37 PDT 2017
Noble Friends, Especially Fellow Scots:
Today BBC is offering a short illustrated piece on exciting excavations
of a Pictish royal site in Burghead, Scotland. Among their finds are a
hearth and foundations from a Pictish longhouse, dated to the 9th
century by the presence of a coin from the reign of the Saxon king
Alfred the Great:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40709112
. Another article from the Aberdeen PRESS AND JOURNAL has a charming
idea about teaching children the meaning behind Pictish stone carvings,
and idea we might adapt for our youth programs:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1294849/burghead-fort-dig-leads-to-surprise-discoveries/
.
You can learn more about the Burghead fort site at
http://www.burghead.com/burghead-fort/ or
http://scotshistoryonline.co.uk/burghead.html . There is also a
Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghead_Fort .
Yours Aye,
Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge
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