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Let's not forget that bronze makes just as good ploughares as iron.

The Archaeology of the Roman Economy by Kevin Greene

p75 diagram is worth a look on Britain's supposed agriculture prior to ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12997877

the single plough they have ever found, between the Romans leaving and the tenth century.

The plough with mouldboard is a later development of the s ...

The Iron Age Hill forts and contemporary close proto 'English' neighbours.

Maybe the iron tipped ard, which enabled cultivation of heavier soils and introduced into Britain around 500BC, provide ...

The Iron Age Hill forts seemingly have contemporary close neighbours in the don/dun/down villages and farms of mainly England. Similarly the Gaelic duns of Scotland and Ireland. While in Wales they're ...

I expect Frank knows all about this
Atlas for Hillforts Project

It seems to be a joint project to be carried out by Oxford and Edinburgh unis.

Not much actual digging on site is apparently pro ...

So a pidgeon (pyrg-eon) perhaps is a bird that inhabits a tower.

Apparently the underlying meaning of burg(stronghold) and berg(mountain) in the Germanic languages is 'protection'.

The 6th cent ...

P and B even sound alike (if the P is not pronounced like "F").
The convention is that the Germanic berg(mountain) led to burg(protection/stronghold).

Pyrg in Greek is tower and can mean ...

But where geographically was the trading link of the Greeks to northern Europe, sea or land routes?.

Googling - the main Amber Road (Bernsteinstrasse) was an overland/rivers route, apparently very ...

so both sides can agree that the answer is Byzantine Greece.
But where geographically was the trading link of the Greeks to northern Europe, sea or land routes?.
As mentioned in this thread some t ...

How and when did Greek or Phoenician 'pyrg' get transliterated into the Germanic and other languages, including Persian, Maghreb, Levant etc?

A realistic answer or reasonable theory based on ev ...

Your average archaeo is not looking or thinking about a bird tower. (in fact, nobody other than

That the Greek 'pyrg' which apparently translates to tower, perhaps as you propose may have orig ...

Tower first I reckon... standing stone/ beacon/ look-out.

Apparently the Germanic 'burg' is similarly so derived, but from 'berg' i.e. mountain. How both Greek and German ended up with similar sou ...

Pygri looks like Fiji.

Apologies it's not PYGRI but the 6th century BC port of pyrgi near Rome.
Said to be a Greek word meaning tower. Pyrgos places are common throughout Greece and Islands, typi ...

The 'castle' could represent a crow's nest

The chess pieces foreign languages names can be seen on:
http://www.schach-chess.com/Chess_Pieces.htm

Most describe the rook as tower. But Turkish use ...

'crows nest'
In my school we called the chess piece 'rook' - castle.

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Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 12:40 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Let's not forget that bronze makes just as good ploughares as iron. The Archaeology of the Roman Economy by Kevin Greene p75 diagram is worth a look on Britain's supposed agriculture prior to ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 11:06 am Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12997877 the single plough they have ever found, between the Romans leaving and the tenth century. The plough with mouldboard is a later development of the s ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 4:00 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	The Iron Age Hill forts and contemporary close proto 'English' neighbours. Maybe the iron tipped ard, which enabled cultivation of heavier soils and introduced into Britain around 500BC, provide ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 4:59 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	The Iron Age Hill forts seemingly have contemporary close neighbours in the don/dun/down villages and farms of mainly England. Similarly the Gaelic duns of Scotland and Ireland. While in Wales they're ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 4:45 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	I expect Frank knows all about this Atlas for Hillforts Project It seems to be a joint project to be carried out by Oxford and Edinburgh unis. Not much actual digging on site is apparently pro ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 8:37 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	So a pidgeon (pyrg-eon) perhaps is a bird that inhabits a tower. Apparently the underlying meaning of burg(stronghold) and berg(mountain) in the Germanic languages is 'protection'. The 6th cent ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 11:12 am Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	P and B even sound alike (if the P is not pronounced like "F"). The convention is that the Germanic berg(mountain) led to burg(protection/stronghold). Pyrg in Greek is tower and can mean ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 3:57 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	But where geographically was the trading link of the Greeks to northern Europe, sea or land routes?. Googling - the main Amber Road (Bernsteinstrasse) was an overland/rivers route, apparently very ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 10:50 am Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	so both sides can agree that the answer is Byzantine Greece. But where geographically was the trading link of the Greeks to northern Europe, sea or land routes?. As mentioned in this thread some t ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 12:30 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	How and when did Greek or Phoenician 'pyrg' get transliterated into the Germanic and other languages, including Persian, Maghreb, Levant etc? A realistic answer or reasonable theory based on ev ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 1:18 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Your average archaeo is not looking or thinking about a bird tower. (in fact, nobody other than That the Greek 'pyrg' which apparently translates to tower, perhaps as you propose may have orig ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 3:45 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Tower first I reckon... standing stone/ beacon/ look-out. Apparently the Germanic 'burg' is similarly so derived, but from 'berg' i.e. mountain. How both Greek and German ended up with similar sou ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 9:10 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Pygri looks like Fiji. Apologies it's not PYGRI but the 6th century BC port of pyrgi near Rome. Said to be a Greek word meaning tower. Pyrgos places are common throughout Greece and Islands, typi ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 3:14 pm Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	The 'castle' could represent a crow's nest The chess pieces foreign languages names can be seen on: http://www.schach-chess.com/Chess_Pieces.htm Most describe the rook as tower. But Turkish use ...
Topic: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	Forum: British History Posted: 10:08 am Subject: Hill Forts
frank h Replies: 1328 Views: 415716	'crows nest' In my school we called the chess piece 'rook' - castle.