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spencer wrote:
Aaaaaaaaaagh. My mate invited me round for a jar or three last night. I readily agreed, and got pleasantly merry. I was less so when I found out I'd missed the third episode too : ( : ( : ( hi ho..anyway, a question. Or two. Has the origin of the Orkney vole been determined now? Have there been any artifacts from far flung and unexpected places been discovered..if so, what? Have any artifacts from such places of contemporary date been found elsewhere on Orkney, or Shetland for that matter...or, indeed, in Denmark?
Re the vole - Belgium would appear to be the favourite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney_vole

That figures, to me.... I'm reading and thinking thoughts. Any mention of date of abandonment or sea level change or contemporary global climatic events? In my opinion if you want to understand history you must have an interdisciplinary approach...and that includes not dismissing legend and oral history out of hand.

though even the Belgian vole had its roots in North Africa ultimately, and I do believe there are stone circles in the region IIRC