Neolithic dig
The remnants of a neolithic hall have been discovered in my town (stones throw from my house); the biggest ever in Scotland, from around 4000 BCE.
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Blimey they found quite a lot! 🙌Will they be looking for somewhere else to build the football pitch now?
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I know nothing, unfortunately. The area is extremely close to my house, but I am at the bottom of the very steep hill it is up! I am going to keep my ears open for any new developments, this is new news.
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By gum Chris75_, interesting stuff!
Hopefully that'll be delivering surprises for some time yet.
Carnoustie's a lovely bit of Scotland, I remember LONG beaches...
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4000 bce is a wee while ago is it not? Lol.
I used to be disappointed watching 'Time Team', when they found a Saxon royal palace or suchlike, and all that could be seen were dark stains in the soil, where various posts had once stood. "Oh look, another post hole'' Tony Robinson would enthuse.
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Some folk believe that's when God created everything. It must have been a busy year.
My grandma was an anthropologist and I occasionally went on digs with her. That gave me some sense of the vast amount of effort involved in that type of work.
It's great to see them succeeding.
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Exciting stuff with some amazing finds, shame you can't get there, @Chris75_
I wanted to be an archeologist when a kid & along with my neighbour, Steve, got invited to a local dig when about 11/12. Sadly, they did nothing to encourage us & we were the barrow pushers for the day. Still love archeology though.
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Well, we can't all be Alice Roberts! Besides, the mud would play havoc with your chair castors…
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🤣 Quite true!
Actually, do you remember that thread that sadly went wayward & closed, but there were a couple of pics posted on there of some with no castors, just tracks, they would do the job. 😉
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I certainly do remember it. The Magic 360 looks pretty handy too, that's another Sunrise Medical chair, but needed £2k extra payment on Motability. I laughed at the salesman. For a car, but never a chair or scooter!
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I had to look up the 360, I really like that, but I'd need a new spine before getting one to really enjoy it. Would be worth the money then, not that I would have any. 2k extra on Motability is crazy as you can get a car worth more for less, ridiculous!
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After doing a bit of reading, it seems the 2 football pitches will still be laid atop this archaeology.
Once the data has been recorded, and artifacts retrieved, I imagine this will in fact protect the site from erosion.
it seems the council were required to commission archaeologists to survey the area, as a condition of the granting of planning permission.
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It is incredible to think that this 115 foot by 30 foot structure was built 1000 years before Stonehenge.
Subsequent smaller buildings were built on the site, possibly unaware of the existence of the former. I wish I knew why that particular spot was so important.
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That does happen, Chris & at least it is logged then preserved for the future.
It is amazing & that's what makes archeology so interesting & sometimes, exciting. You could try making contact with GUARD Archeology & ask, they may be happy to share their thoughts on why.
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I might just do that, Jessie, thanks.
My guess is not as good as theirs of course, but it might be at a confluence of ways across what is now Angus.
They found stone from many different parts of Scotland, and the dimensions of the hall are pretty large. It must have been a very impressive a building.
Just imagine the fraternising and trading of goods amongst many different communities, 1000 years before Stonehenge.
I for one am very pleased it has come to light. I intend to Visit Edinburgh next summer, to see the artifacts they found. I did the same 2 years ago to view The Declaration Of Arbroath ( A mere 700 years old).
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You're welcome, @Chris75_ & at the same time, if it's something you want to impart, maybe mention why you couldn't go up to see it, they may come up with something before the artifacts are on show.
That could have something to do with it, Chris, our early ancestors seemed very good at that, as has come up in other places, Europe have some older than Stonehenge, so it could be up with them. It's quite amazing what they did get up to & we can only surmise really. Mind you, look at what the Egyptians were building about 500yrs after Stonehenge.
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The Egyptians may have had one or two slaves to do the donkey work!
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I am currently watching all of the reruns of Time Team via CH4 - They started over 30 years ago - I did watch them originally at the time, but now they make good watching !
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Wow, I didnt realise they'd been going for that long @Wibbles I do remember watching them when they started though.
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Tony Robinson rushing about out of breath. Relax Tony, the artifacts have been lying there for centuries!
I used to really like Phil Harding, and Prof Mick Aston of the multicoloured jumper!
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