My local town was an ancient Pictish capital of Scotland.Standing stones and burial places exist nearby
and my own fascination for standing stones is a long held interest..


In UK the lottery grant money to organisations and a local site is be excavated.Professionals are camped out today tonight and tomorrow.Tomorrow afternoon for two hours we can visit and see experts and volunteeers work.It is one mile from my door..
so I shall walk on spirtual land from the ancients....
the findings will be recorded and will be of great interest to many here.

Most exciting, MA. And, to think that it is only a mile down from where you live!

I have been to see King's Quoit in Tenby, Pembrokeshire as well as the Pentre Ifan in Dyfed. When I first visited Wales during the courtship days of my SIL and daughter, her future in-laws took me to Preseli, which apparently was the source of the stones at Stonehenge. I surmise that the Picts held sway in Wales as well, even if only mostly in the north.

Do post about it when you return from the visit. I'd be most keen as one rarely comes across archived reference on Pictish culture. Quite a damper when one is amongst Welsh speakers and interested in learning the various influences on the Welsh language.

In the meantime, I wish you pleasant weather during your visit to the site.

There are three sites one even nearer..from one window !!! I can look and wonder.

An author has written novels about the "princess" fable of course but interesting that is my little nearby hill.
yes...been to church had a small lunch and changing into walking shoes...Dig That.and off we go

Mountain Ash, how did the excavation go? It's fascinating to get a glimpse, however brief, into lives and cultures long past. Archaeological digs are like peeling back layers of time.

Very interesting.
All was covered back a day later.
They found cremated bone and a kist where bones and cremated remain were together..several graves nearby.
Iron age people who lived and farmed kept animals.two and a half thousand years old.
Seems this is a significant site so more will unfold..
Keep thinking about birth life and death of these people.They lived here at the same time as the Romans first came to Britain..Because its sandy soil not much remained mostly ditches..which were circular.Rather like celtic designs seen in jewellry..

A good coincidense, well me and po was talking two days ago about celtic and picktish people and cultures and somehow the celtic language would have been most closlie related to welsh as the romans got england,(britons) but could't penitrate ireland scotland and wealse.

LOLA....with walse being last and mostlie left alone that would have been the closest to the original language of the celts with scots and irish being more distorted or deluted. so welsh varasion is ment to be most purest celtic language....cool huh (descovery channel lol)

talked about romans being in eglans protecting and rulling the britons. when the romans left thir was caose, then saxons and angels invaded but again scotland and walse mostlie left inpenitrated.

Sadlie it turned into a chat about caloden lead by stewart and wot a massicare it was as they had gotten wepons and been militarised (made up word) and after caloden the clearinses. sad end to a day when ya finish that day with that chat

lol oh yea picts we talking about

i honestlie do not knopw were the picts feel into the picture from coloden onwards were else they lived and how they lived with other cultures if they did.

Do you know or could you give a reff?

hope the digg went well and thir back soon.

great to know your houise is so close to what be a holie place by them.

Is thir a relasionship between celtic druids and picts? it is hard to find good stuff about them MA plze keep us popsted, seriouslie.
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