Traprain Law 4
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Traprain Law

traprain law

I'm quite taken by the idea of IA recognition (if not re-use) of carvings. Ask anyone who's had to put up with me waffling on at them. Chatton 4 is smack bang in the middle of a earthwork that's listed as a settlement, and it looks more, well, sort of more 'used' than the other carvings nearby. However, if IA folk were re-using the carvings, it's got to be a pretty slim chance that it was for the original purpose, but then the meanings probably mutated over the centuries anyway.

I've never seen pics, but I recall reading that the complex bits of Traprain's carvings are more incised than pecked, whilst the cups are pecked. Which makes it all even more confusing.

Hi Hob,
Just found a pic with the Traprain carvings.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/37569
Cheers,
Jan

Are the earthworks IA? and has this been proved by excavation?
Same rules apply but even more to Routing Linn.
Doesn't it make you think..hang on a minute! Is this a case of ...we've got a none linear/hengiform earthwork....hmmmmm.....it must be IA or later. I'd really like to know.

On our recent visit to Old Bewick it made me stop and think about whether there could be earlier archaeology beneath the beautiful hillfort.

Can I get an amen?