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Traces of flowers from Bronze Age cairnArchaeologists examining a Bronze Age burial mound on the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire found meadowsweet pollen grains. "Adam Gwilt, curator of the Bronze and Iron Age Collection at the National Museum of Wales, said the discovery shed new light on ancient burials. He said: "It gives tenderness to otherwise remote and impersonal burial rites". Mr Gwilt said the same burial ritual had been found as far away as the Orkney Islands in Scotland. "(does this mean using meadowsweet specifically?) More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4697748.stm and http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba88/news.shtml#item1 (If you want to grumble about geocaching at the site also page down and read at http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba78/news.shtml |
Posted by Rhiannon10th February 2006ce Edited 14th August 2006ce
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