Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[TisILeclerc]

There's also the legend of Trevelyan's ride on his white horse to escape the flood

He just made it to Lands End and looked back to see the flooded landscape behind him.

All legend of course. Couldn't have happened.

[Boreades]

The best way of understanding what life was like on Orkney (or Skye, or the Scilly island) back then, is not to bother with the archaeos, or the historians desperately rewriting the myths and legends, but to watch a very practical person.

Ray Mears' Wild Food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sk-Lctr7PU

[Mick Harper]

a) he clearly got his evidence from archaeos and b) his methods would support about one man and his dog, Spot.

[Boreades]

a) he clearly got his evidence from archaeos and b) his methods would support about one man and his dog, Spot.

Where's your evidence for that?
Bombastic poo-poo'ing is not enough.
Up your game, squire!

Edit: oh by the way, do make your claim after you've watched the entire video.
The timing of your posting suggests you didn't bother with that.

[Mick Harper]

That's true. One minute thirty seconds and I knew-it-all.

[Boreades]

I wonder how old the Orkney Islands Council/Business/Tourist Board is?

Destination Britain Nordics 2016 : Do you want to grow your trade business from Scandinavia? Join us on our Nordics sales mission to meet and do business with 50 top buyers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

https://www.visitbritain.org/nordics

The "Visit Britain" organisation is trying to get more Nordics to visit Britain.

Destination Britain Nordics gives you the chance to gain new business contacts and build on existing relationships with buyers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... In the past decade, the Nordic region has been a consistently strong performer in terms of both visits and spend in Britain.

Did Orkney folk encourage Nordics to do the same a few thousand years ago?

Visit Orkney, see our beautiful coral beaches, get some Anglo/Irish slaves, pick up some Mediterranean wine and bronze souvenirs...

[TisILeclerc]

They have already been visited by Mediterraneans by way of North Africa.

550 Italian prisoners of war, captured in North Africa during World War II, were brought to Orkney in 1942. They worked on the construction of the Churchill Barriers, four causeways created to block access to Scapa Flow.[2] 200 were based at Camp 60 on Lamb Holm.[3] In 1943, Major Thomas Pyres Buckland, Camp 60's new commandant, and Father Gioacchino Giacobazzi, the camp's padre, agreed that a place of worship was required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel

[Boreades]

We mentioned Brochs before. But Midhowe Broch, on Orkney, is an example of what are supposed to be the oldest. All of which are in the north and western isles. The historians have loads of theories, but what actual evidence is there for their purpose?

The excavations recovered stone and bone tools associated with grain-processing, spinning and weaving. Also found were pieces from crucibles and moulds associated with bronze-working. Also discovered was a fragment from a Roman bronze vessel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhowe_Broch

i.e. metal working and tradeable goods.

[Mick Harper]

What about some dangerous process that required isolation?

[Boreades]

Metal working is a dangerous process. Tisi has the stories.