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@wolfweed. As always great images and links. Loved the Vitamin D pic.

@soundworld You can’t say too much about Scottish history/archaeology. Orkneys are very high on my “to go wish list”. (Every so often I re-watch the Neil Oliver docos on the subject) There are also several stone circles which I have not seen and for family history reasons I am…[Read more]

@wolfweed I always view these inaccuracies as though they were elements in a story told down through the ages, various bits get mangled or re-imagined or joined with other bits – but they’re still there, forming the story.  As ever, if we can accept light-eating monsters from another dimension, then lets not worry overly about the local…[Read more]

Well, that was fun.  The pacing felt really good – it seemed like a longer than normal episode, but in a good way, not rushing to solve everything in the final minutes.

As a Scottish person, I loved the jokes ‘Death by Scotland’ especially.  Actually, we’ve just had two whole days of lovely warm sun 🙂 it only rained for a short while each d…[Read more]

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@wolfweed

Yes indeed. There’s more evidence for Roman military activity in Scotland than anywhere else (and there are lots of it !). However, there seems to be little evidence regarding how much of Scotland was occupied between the first invasion in 84AD and the building of Hadrian’s Wall in 122. The second invasion took place in 140AD ish. …[Read more]

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I’ve had an interesting morning trying to gain a superficial overview of the known history of Roman’s in Scotland and the Scottish tribes. A confusing picture it certainly is.

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The picture of the pictish monster carving reminds me of Viking ones. 🙂 Co-incidence or some cultural cross fertilization.

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@wolfweed

🙂

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