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It’s being reported that archaeologists have discovered that the Crannogs are actually older than stone henge. It was thought that they were first built in about 800bc yet after undertaking radiocarbon dating they have said that they actually were built somewhere between 3360-3640bc.
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Educate us further oh God of Thunder. What are they?
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They're the villages that were built on stilts or artificial islands in lochs, no?
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I thought they were Teacakes.
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A can recommend a visit to The Crannog Centre at Kenmore. If you're lucky you'll get to do some wood turning or even grind some grain on a stone quern.
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HARVEY T DENTON wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:06 pm I thought they were Teacakes.
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Real Al wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:05 pm They're the villages that were built on stilts or artificial islands in lochs, no?
Many strange and amazing things happened thousands of years ago, Pyramids to name just one.. Seems like the ancients were far more advanced than previously thought.

Hundreds of tiny islands around Scotland didn't arise naturally. They're fakes that were constructed out of boulders, clay and timbers by Neolithic people about 5,600 years ago, a new study finds. https://www.livescience.com/65728-neoli ... lands.html
Researchers have known about these artificial islands, known as crannogs, for decades. But many archaeologists thought that the crannogs were made more recently, in the Iron Age about 2,800 years ago. The new finding not only shows that these crannogs are much older than previously thought but also that they were likely "special locations" for Neolithic people, according to nearby pottery fragments found by modern divers, the researchers wrote in the study
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Thanks for the explanation Sid
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The pyramids were not strange, they were an impossibility!! We cant build them now with all the kit and tech available now.

Paging little green aliens.
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Thor wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:56 pm The pyramids were not strange, they were an impossibility!! We cant build them now with all the kit and tech available now.

Paging little green aliens.
I’m sure if the demand arose any technical issues would be quickly overcome.
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Those three pyramids are quite some way apart and are in a nigh on perfect straight line of 0.001% out or some such nonsense. They were perfectly straight upwards and the blocks were huge. Like I said we cant build them now so how or who did is a mystery that's never been solved.
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I made a 3D pyramid for my homework it was easy I got an A Star for it as well

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Nice one Lucky.
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