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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland

Hi,

The Time Team are coming to Barra and i thought it would be interesting to see what they find i will post photos here through out next week and try to get any news if they find any thing.

To give you a idea where there going to dig here are some pics below,

And why are they digging? Because bones have been found around that area and they think there is a Viking Boat in that Mound.

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  • Location: Lindum Colonia
  • Location: Lindum Colonia

Cool!

Completely irrelevant but I watched a documentary last night about a little boy who claimed to be reincarnated. He said in a previous life he lived on Barra and described it in some detail despite the fact he lived his whole life in Glasgow. It showed quite a bit of the island which looks very pretty. Shame about the weather while they were filming though :)

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks

that could be interesting to keep an eye on.

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
Cool!

Completely irrelevant but I watched a documentary last night about a little boy who claimed to be reincarnated. He said in a previous life he lived on Barra and described it in some detail despite the fact he lived his whole life in Glasgow. It showed quite a bit of the island which looks very pretty. Shame about the weather while they were filming though :)

Well that was in the middle of the winter they should have filmed it in the summer.

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  • Location: St. Albans, Herts
  • Location: St. Albans, Herts
And why are they digging? Because bones have been found around that area and they think there is a Viking Boat in that Mound.

I'm guessing Jacqui Mulville, Mike Parker Pearson, Keith Branigan and possibly Niall Sharples will be the experts, as all four have long term research projects up there.

Looks like an interesting mound: might also be neolithic, although viking does seem likely as there are known examples from Barra.

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcan...s?inumlink=9715

Ah well, the time team circus rolls into town................sigh!

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  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

Tut tut tut!

Digging up the Island :) Waste of time!

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
Tut tut tut!

Digging up the Island :) Waste of time!

It will be interesting to see whats there.

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  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
It will be interesting to see whats there.

I word for you mate.

MUD

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
sheep droppings?

nope sheep dont go on that side. to windy they will blow away.

I word for you mate.

MUD

sand not mud

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  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

Weird how theres a lump there though makes you think. :)

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland

They will be digging on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.

As i said i will try to get news and photos.

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland

Day 1

Today they were digging around about the area shown below and i will try to get photos and news later today.

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
Tut tut tut!

Digging up the Island :) Waste of time!

WHAT? I'll pretend I didn't hear that. :) Archaeology, waste of time. pah

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  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland
  • Location: Dunoon, Argyll Scotland

Day 2

Busy day found graves houses and the age of the place they have found which is 2 and a half thousand years old.

Photos of day 2 below.

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  • Location: frogmore south devon
  • Location: frogmore south devon
Day 2

Busy day found graves houses and the age of the place they have found which is 2 and a half thousand years old.

Photos of day 2 below.

cracking photo's number 3 is interesting the bones look like they have been their about 100 years not 2 half thousand

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  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
  • Location: Western Isle of Wight

Great as it happens pictures WM, I am glad they showed respect and hid the remains behind the table, a nice touch that.

If it were me they were digging up, I wouldn't haunt them that bad because they had been a bit respectful :):)

Regards,

Russ

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
Well they told me the houses where that age not the bones :)

I suspect the bones are the same age as the houses WM, unless someone has been doing some archaeological "tampering".

Great as it happens pictures WM, I am glad they showed respect and hid the remains behind the table, a nice touch that.

If it were me they were digging up, I wouldn't haunt them that bad because they had been a bit respectful :):)

Regards,

Russ

There are strict ethical guidelines with bones, a specific way they have to be handled etc etc. And if the bones are fairly recent (by recent I mean up to a couple hundred years) then the issue of living relatives has to be considered or even possible unsolved murder cases (not very usual though), but these bones probably wouldn't qualify for this. Still, strict ethical guidelines have to be followed and the highest respect for the human remains as you mentioned.

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