While reading this news post

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/brochsrethought.htm

I was amazed to see what appears (from the way this article is written) to be someone else promoting an idea that TC Lethbridge had in the 1950s regarding the Broch builders as something new that they'd just thought of. There's not even a mention of the enormous work that Lethbridge did in this area, in particular his book on the subject <i>The Painted Men</i>.

Not every theory he had was right (as far as we know at the moment), but one day the things he did get right will be given the credit they deserve. When he wrote his ideas on the Broch people they were shunned as being flights of fancy. Now a modern study has come to very similar sounding conclusions.

Tom, I salute you even if the other buggers don't! (and if you're right you can hear me :-)

FourWinds