Interesting how these things keep popping up. Do students and history affectionados not probe these places for subterranean vaults with some type of electronic assistance? I also wonder if when these things are discovered, if there are artifacts. Seems bones are common, but what about other items? In my bead research, I note that the Vikings wore the same Venetian trade beads that were traded to our natives, as well as other beads made in Scandinavia and elsewhere. Seems that there are a few available, but the laws over there seem to prohibit one from hoarding artifacts, even if they are discovered on one's own property. While the intent is fine, I wonder how the rule affects the underground economy, where the supply is pent up stacked against the demand some people might construe as significant. Classic example of macro economics 101 theory. /reduce the supply, and up goes the demand and the price. Lots of interesting Viking goods out there, but not too much from G.B. Hats off to the fellow who found the site. I picture a farm tractor, sinking into a cairn, while the farmer aboard her awakes from his tractor-time daydream. Must be an interesting to be the first to find such a marvel. Great article Sigurd. Canorky Stephen On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 02:24 PM, Sigurd Towrie wrote: > Another Bronze Age burial kist exposed while ploughing in Harray. Full > story at http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/news.htm > > -- > Sigurd Towrie > Blackhall - Kirbister - Stromness - Orkney > Heritage of Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com > Home: sigurd@orkneyjar.com > Work: sigurd.towrie@orcadian.co.uk > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 01:53 am, stephen davie wrote: > Interesting how these things keep popping up. Do students and history > affectionados not probe these places for subterranean vaults with some > type of electronic assistance? there are so many cists throughout the whole of Scotland that there just isn't the time, resources or even the interest to investigate them all. the RCAHMS has 203 seperate cist sites (many of them comprising of several cists) listed on CANMORE for Orkney alone! and that doesn't include the many more that are known but not "officially" listed. > I also wonder if when these things are discovered, if there are > artifacts. Seems bones are common, but what about other items? generally speaking, cist burials don't seem to contain artifacts, usually just the bones Cheers Andy The Megalithic sites of Perthshire: http://www.andysweet.co.uk/stones/

I have looked at photos recently of excavations of old viking graves, with the earth swept off the skeletal remains. Often there are some artifacts. In later years, beads seemed to be present in Viking graves. While these pocket caverns are much older, one still might think the bodies would have been interred with some artifact. On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 04:26 PM, Andy Sweet wrote: > > On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 01:53 am, stephen davie wrote: > >> Interesting how these things keep popping up. Do students and history >> affectionados not probe these places for subterranean vaults with >> some type of electronic assistance? > > there are so many cists throughout the whole of Scotland that there > just isn't the time, resources or even the interest to investigate > them all. the RCAHMS has 203 seperate cist sites (many of them > comprising of several cists) listed on CANMORE for Orkney alone! and > that doesn't include the many more that are known but not "officially" > listed. > >> I also wonder if when these things are discovered, if there are >> artifacts. Seems bones are common, but what about other items? > > generally speaking, cist burials don't seem to contain artifacts, > usually just the bones > > Cheers > Andy > > The Megalithic sites of Perthshire: > http://www.andysweet.co.uk/stones/ > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >