Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[macausland]

I would like to apply for the post of official taster. I am fully qualified and have a life time of experience in many concoctions.

I'm just watching a youtube video on the structure of water and how it can be changed. So I will say thank you to each pint offered and you are beautiful etc. That should produce a fine batch of the stuff. You'll get the Nobel prize for your work.

Please reply with details of when I take up the post.

[Boreades]

Dear Mr MacAusland

Thank you for your application. As an equal opportunities employer, please let us know if you have any distingishing ethic/gender/ability issues that would give you priority. Otherwise we must give priority to Wandy, Wiltshire's Wandering Wallaby, who has already demonstated an eagerness to remain in the vicinity of our local megalithic brewery.

She's got her own Facetwat group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443078029289973/

See http://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=10553 ... y=51.4&z=6

[macausland]

Well, first of all I'm not from Ethics. As for ganders, yes I like a bit of water fowl with roasties. I've never met an Ability but I suppose that Ozzy jumping thing will have come across one. But don't put any trust in her, she couldn't give a four x for the finest ale and cider going. They like it frozen and straight out of the hosepipe.

She's no good I tell you. She'll hop off and leave you bereft.

I'm partial to a hogshead or two as well if that's any good.

[Boreades]

Dear Mr MacAusland

We've repeatedly asked Wanda to clarify her position, but got no sensible reply. So the job is yours! Congratulations.

Your first mission, should you decide to accept it, is to research the megalithic export market for barley and beer. We understand that this made up a large part of the contra-trade across the Channel to the mainland, in exchange for wine. We need to know how much was happening before the Romans arrived, and what happened after.

As always, should you or any of your TME Team be caught plagarising, the Secretary of this Site will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

[macausland]

Caw, stone the crows. A job offer. What shame and disgrace have I brought on Macausland Hall and its denizens?

You don't want me to 'plagarise' eh? After promising a job tasting the stuff you want me to write stuff. No wonder Fluffy the wannabe kangaroo turned her nose up at it.

Anyway you don't want me to 'plagarise' so in that case I have scoured the barrels of academe and come up with something you can read yourself. Funny enough Orkney plays a large part in their discussion. Shouldn't come as a surprise as we all know the reverence booze is held in north of the border.

http://www.academia.edu/209786/Barley_M ... _Neolithic

Don't bother downloading the pdf, they want you to sign in.

Anyway I'm off to the pub to drown my sorrows, sorry to continue my research.

[Boreades]

I didn't say don't plagarise, just don't get caught doing it.

Where would TME be if we didn't, err, recycle material? ;-)

[Boreades]

Don't bother downloading the pdf, they want you to sign in.

No problem, I have ways round that.

[macausland]

Merryn Dineley who wrote the previous article mentioned is married to a 'craft brewer' and lives as a guide around Orkney. Perhaps a fact finding mission could be set up, in the interests of research, to find out more.

She has a long list of links to her work for download.

This particular piece is about Durrington Walls and the resident Maltsters.

http://www.academia.edu/217111/The_Durrington_Maltsters

This is the site with links to all her articles. It's very refreshing to see somebody with a mind fixed on one objective, the history of megalithic and Viking brewing. A boon to humanity and the advancement of human knowledge.

http://independent.academia.edu/MerrynDineley

viking brew houses?

http://experimentalarchaeologyuk.files. ... -final.pdf

[Boreades]

That's a dedication worth raising a glass to.

It reminds me (and please excuse me if I'm repeating the story) of the "Celtic Temple" found near here on The Ridgeway, under the remains of a Roman Villa. Well, it's the archeos who say it must be a Celtic Temple (their interpretation). But they also say the biggest room in the "temple" was a six-foot high malting oven (physical evidence). For roasting barley to make beer.

[Boreades]

Mac, your next mission, should you decide to accept it, is to nip over to the Auchentoshan Distillery the noo, for a wee dram on the bonnie banks of the Clyde.
http://www.auchentoshan.com/the-distillery/tours.aspx

While you are there, could you walk round the corner and have a look at the Cochno Stone on Clydebank? They're just digging it up again. We need to know how significant it is, especially its location at the head of a megalithically-navigable river.



Refs
: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/herit ... -1-3479326
: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/sit ... stone.html