The Mystery of Scottish Brochs and Irish Round Towers (Megalithic)

[Boreades]

It's because you need the exercise.

[Mick Harper]

Yes, they do.

[Boreades]

They have been sent out for their daily exercise, and have returned with stray thoughts.

We're told that Brochs are "unique" to Scotland. They are found nowhere else (it is said). Except, that is, for the brochs on Sardinia.

[Boreades]

What proud boasts?

I'd forgotten, so had to look it up.

[Boreades]

#1 Son for one year lived and worked in Galicia. Not one of those boozy Brits tourist destinations, it was one of the parts of Spain that occasionally wear kilts and plays the bagpipes. #1 Son says the indigenous locals, proud of their history and heritage, would be indignant if you called them Spanish. And said that they had bagpipes before the Scots. Or so they claimed.

Anyway, the migration route of these Sea People appears to have possibly been Western Med islands, then up the Western Atlantic coast to Portugal, North West Spain, Britanny in France (Carnac etc) and then the western side of the British Isles.

The most historic landmark in A Coruna in Galicia is the Tower of Hercules, a famous lighthouse that dates back to Roman times at least. Its location, and the light it issued, only makes sense for shipping on a due north-south route, heading towards Britanny, Britain and Ireland. Not east-west along the north coast of Spain.

Although why anyone living on the Western Med islands, Portugal, North West Spain, or Britanny would want to emigrate so far north to the west of Scotland is beyond me. Cold, dreich and full of midges.

[Boreades]

Here's something else "unique" to Scotland.

Scotland's Vitrified Forts.

I'd read various articles that had vague lists of locations, which just frustrated me. Because it didn't help at all to make sense of the distribution pattern. So I put them on a map.

A Googly Map is here

The west coast ones look like beaconage places to me. For maritime navigation. Long periods with fires burning as beacons would explain the vitrification.

The east coast ones? I'm not so sure, as they seem to be inland a bit. Maybe Sheila McGregor's deer hunters were lighting beacons.

Refs
http://aberfeldy.wikidot.com/chapter:7
and
http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter:11
and
Chasing the deer hunter link here

[Mick Harper]

I know it's the fault of the site, Borry, but can you find some way of shortening your URLs, they're making the page width go awry.

To you others: my comments are on the Megalithic Empire site.

[Boreades]

[Mick Harper]

I recently paid to have it upgraded and was told it had been. I was so relieved to find it was the same dear site I was used to I didn't pursue the matter.

[Boreades]

You've been robbed.

[Mick Harper]

No doubt but I have learned over a long and unsuccessful life that arguing the toss with gatekeepers is not a paying proposition.

N.B. Arguing with everyone else has made mine a long and successful life.

[Boreades]

If only I was allowed out, I would do the upgrade for you.

https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/ug/upgradeguide/

[Mick Harper]

I have learned over a long life that looking gift horses in the mouth is the way to go.

[Boreades]

Trot your gift horse down to The Shire and we can try some efficatious applications.

If it goes all 'orribly wrong, I will deny any responsibility.

[Mick Harper]

The AEL can be left to its own devices. But since I am visiting Wiltshire for a significant birthday bash later this year you might ask your wife if she knows anything about AI.

I/we wish to make a series of YouTubes featuring an imaginary but compelling figure (or figures) giving a series of talks speaking words that I/we have written. If this is now possible to do in an economical fashion there is a requirement for someone who can attend to the technical side about which applied epistemologists are habitually ignorant.