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Howburn Digger wrote:
tiompan wrote:
With the possible exception of extreme weather conditions and one one hill top ,the Inn Pinn , can we really have any confidence in the belief that prehistoric peoples in Britain would have been terrified of , or on hill tops ,groves and sources of water ? I hae my doots .
I am of the same Inn Pinn-nion. Oor four faithers wur a fearless bunch. Feart o' nuthin'!

Ma brither did the Inn Pinn. I cannae even look at the phoaties!

Our auld brithren paddled ower unkent seas and did it wae a haunfue o' flint tae see them through.

Feart o' nought! Masters of the lot!

That was funny sinking back into the old speech I don't think! Braveheart rides again (or did he walk, or have I got the right film even!).
What bothers me about Scotland though is I can never get my head round that the Scotti, according to myth/truth, came over from Ireland........
'unkent seas'??

moss wrote:
What bothers me about Scotland though is I can never get my head round that the Scotti, according to myth/truth, came over from Ireland........
'unkent seas'??
Scotti is a Roman name for Irish raiders , William Skene Prof of Celtic stufies circa 1850 started the Scotti myth .It has long since been refuted and is no longer taught . Ewan Campbell excavator of Dunadd questions this .He notes three problems 1)Evidence of migrations come from later chronicles ,while earlier texts do not record it. 2)Archaeological evidence does not record this migration and if anything suggests influence flowing from Scotland to Ireland. 3) He suggests that the rise of Dalriada came from an internal change, and may quite reasonably have come from a warrior group crossing from Antrim to Argyll in the 6th C. The fluidity of movement across the Irish Sea in all directiions and all points from Cumbria ,IoM ,Dumfries & Galloway suggets something far more complex than the Skene hypothesis . The Scots i.e. inhabitants of Scotland are like those of most places ,mongrels .