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Re: how deep is your love?

Nov 07, 2005, 12:07

> There are quite a lot of Bronze/Iron Age chariot roads in Ireland

there were chariot tracks discovered at a site in (I think) East Lothian this year or last. had a quick look on Google but couldn't find anything. did find this though:

http://www.taphophilia.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2395

"The remains of a mysterious figure found in an Iron Age chariot burial under the A1M motorway was of "exceptional significance" according to academics, who have also unearthed the leftovers of one of Britain's biggest feasts at his funeral site in Yorkshire.

"But high strontium in his bones shows that he was not from Yorkshire, but almost certainly from the Scottish highlands," said Ms Boyle. "And the cattle remains date from the first century AD when the Romans were establishing themselves here."

Other finds, including ceremonial sites and a drovers' road, have pointed to more centralised organisation than had previously been thought. Road excavations, encouraged by the Highways Agency, have been influential because of the age of routes such as the A1 Great North Road from London to Edinburgh."

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Andy

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