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Explore Scotland’s Archaeology
Legend has it that one night at the height of a Scottish summer, when the rain was lashing down outside, an archaeologist began a quest to uncover everything ever known about the history of Scotland… well they were overreaching a bit but here’s some of the things they did find out.
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Did you know?
Scotland has six world heritage sites – the Antonine Wall, the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, New Lanark, the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, St Kilda and the Forth Bridge
Every archaeological project undertaken in Scotland submits its site archive to Historic Environment Scotland. Give them advance notice to look it out and you can get access to any archive that you’d like to see.
Mary Queen of Scots became queen at only 6 days old. She was a widow three times. Mary was implicated in the murder of her second husband but the case was never solved. And despite being imprisoned by her cousin, Elizabeth I, for 19 years, the two never actually met.
The word ‘blackmail’ originated with the Border Reivers – gangs who carried out raids on either side of the Scottish-English Border during the 14th to 17th centuries. The term was used to refer to the payments made to the chieftains by landholders in order to stop them from pillaging their property. The ‘mail’ comes from the term ‘meal’ which meant tribute or rent.
MARY JANE STRODE
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