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Incomplete without watching some https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson and some https://www.youtube.com/@BrightI

Incomplete without watching some https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson and some https://www.youtube.com/@BrightInsight https://www.youtube.com/@BrightInsight and probably some others, which I'm not up to date to, or even unaware of. Anyways, most interesting thing, and more relevant to me because relative 'near' to me, was something found and excavated on a scottish island near the shoreline. Like a cabin/hut made out of stone, but absolutely Out-of-context because way too old for that level of sophistication of the way of building, and also the rest of artefacts found there. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore, because I can't remember those strange names of the Orkney Islands, or the Hebrides. (Where this was, way up north-east from the tip of Scotland) At the time (about 10 years ago now?) I came across it over some branch of the Royal Society, which made it into a virtual museum, excellent web design btw. Spent about 4 hours there, and some more the following days. Crosschecked with other events of the time in that area, like Doggerland, Storegga slide, and so on. The virtual museum explained how they dug it out, how they prepared and reconstructed some artefacts, documented every step photographically, even with *.raw pictures if you wanted to, but without slowing the site down. All very snappy. So called 'experimental archeology'. IIRC the strangest thing was that the building seemed like it has been 'thrown down' there, because a few meters away the ground was different, normal. And it lacked a roof, that was gone, and not found, not even parts of it, like it had been sheered away, with some parts of the building, slightly diagonally from its top. And some materials of the artefacts seemed to come from far away, agean sea, near east, I think. Anyways, according to C14 dating, and other measurements I can't remember anymore, it must have been built 200 to 400 years after the glacier there melted away. At the time I thought just wow, why isn't this in the mainstream media at all? This is sensational! Tried to find it again several times, some years later, to point others to it, but can't find it anymore. GRR!

akiselev 4y ago
Are you thinking of the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
  No. The layout of the building was rectangular, maybe 6 to 8 meters on the sides. Single room, with a few shelfs also made of stone embedded into the walls, a fireplace, and a bed/couch, also made of stone, but very smooth surface. Only one small window(almost quadratic(maybe up to a meter sidelength, and a doorway. It stood on a slope, and the walls were cut into it up to a height of maybe 1.50 meters on the sides. Looking rather cozy, all in all. And a larger fireplace outside. And nothing else! Like that place had been cut out, somewhere else, and came to rest there. But thanks for asking :-) That's the diffuculty I remember for finding this place again. England, Ireland, Scotland and the many islands in the Orkneys and Shetlands are full of the stuff! Looking at maps now, ISTR it was on a single small Island, like Ham, with an almost conical mountain in the middle. And Hebrides was a mistake, that is west of Scotland. Either Orkneys, or Shetlands. I tried to imagine how that must have looked at the time, depending on the weather, maybe poking out of the mist, like something out of Lord of the Rings, or similar. Some Druid, on the edge of Doggerland in his cabin...

akiselev 4y ago

Are you thinking of the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar

LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
No. The layout of the building was rectangular, maybe 6 to 8 meters on the sides. Single room, with a few shelfs also made of stone embedded into the walls, a fireplace, and a bed/couch, also made of stone, but very smooth surface. Only one small window(almost quadratic(maybe up to a meter sidelength, and a doorway. It stood on a slope, and the walls were cut into it up to a height of maybe 1.50 meters on the sides. Looking rather cozy, all in all. And a larger fireplace outside. And nothing else! Like that place had been cut out, somewhere else, and came to rest there. But thanks for asking :-) That's the diffuculty I remember for finding this place again. England, Ireland, Scotland and the many islands in the Orkneys and Shetlands are full of the stuff! Looking at maps now, ISTR it was on a single small Island, like Ham, with an almost conical mountain in the middle. And Hebrides was a mistake, that is west of Scotland. Either Orkneys, or Shetlands. I tried to imagine how that must have looked at the time, depending on the weather, maybe poking out of the mist, like something out of Lord of the Rings, or similar. Some Druid, on the edge of Doggerland in his cabin...