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Incredible 5,000-Year-Old Temple Complex In Orkney Could Re-Write History Of Scotland

MessageToEagle.com - The excavations at the Ness of Brodgar have been attracting a lot of attention recently and now it's time for yet another surprise that could re-write the history of Scotland and change our image of prehistoric people who inhabited this region.
Ness of Brodgar is an archaeological site between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site near Loch of Harray, Orkney, in Scotland.
Although archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar are still at early stages, some very surprising and interesting discoveries have been made. Some of these findings will force us to re-evaluate our understanding of how our ancestors lived.
"A groundbreaking excavation of a 5,000-year-old temple complex in Orkney has uncovered evidence to suggest that prehistoric people were a great deal more sophisticated than previously thought," The Scotman reports.
"Until as recently as 30 years ago, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness, and the Maes Howe tomb, all in Orkney, were seen as isolated monuments with separate histories. Now it appears they were built as part of a connected community, although its purpose remains unknown."

"What the Ness is telling us is that this was a much more integrated landscape than anyone ever suspected," archaeologist Nick Card, excavation director with 'the Archaeology Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands said.In his opinion the ancient ruins are turning British pre-history on its head. "All these monuments are inextricably linked in some grand theme we can only guess at.

The people who built all this were a far more complex and capable society than has usually been portrayed," Card said. So far thousands of priceless artifacts, ceremonial mace heads, polished stone axes, flint knives, a human figurine, miniature thumb pots, beautifully crafted stone spatulas, highly-refined colored pottery, and more than 650 pieces of Neolithic art, by far the largest collection ever found in Britain have been discovered at the site. Yet, we must remember only 10% of the Ness of Brodgar has been excavated. There can still be many more wonderful ancient surprises waiting for us.

5,000-year-old temple complex in orkney could re-write history of Scotland. Roff Smith, author of the National Geographic article who has studied the cache, is convinced Orkney was inhabited by people ahead of their time. "They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney - a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland - erected a complex of monumental buildings unlike anything they had ever attempted before.
They quarried thousands of tons of fine-grained sandstone, trimmed it, dressed it, then transported it several miles to a grassy promontory with commanding views of the surrounding countryside.

Ness of Brodgar is an archaeological site between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site near Loch of Harray, Orkney, in Scotland.
Their workmanship was impeccable. The imposing walls they built would have done credit to the Roman centurions who, some 30 centuries later, would erect Hadrian's Wall in another part of Britain. Cloistered within those walls were dozens of buildings, among them one of the largest roofed structures built in prehistoric northern Europe. It was more than 80ft long and 60ft wide, with walls 13ft thick, Smith said.
Smith noted that the complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework, coloured facades, even slate roofs at a time when buildings were usually covered with turf, hides, or thatch.

More important than Stonehenge: The temple precinct being uncovered in Orkney contains 100 Stone Age buildings "Stand at the Ness today and several iconic Stone Age structures are within easy view, forming the core of a World Heritage site called the Heart of Neolithic Orkney.
On a heather-clad knoll half a mile away rises a giant ­Tolkienesque circle of stones known as the Ring of Brodgar," Smith said.
"A second ceremonial stone circle, the famous Stones of Stenness, is visible across the causeway leading up to the Ness. And one mile away is an eerie mound called Maes Howe, an enormous chambered tomb more than 4,500 years old."
Smith added: "The Ness of Brodgar appears to be the anchor piece - the showpiece, if you will - that links these other great monuments into one great monumental landscape of a sort nobody had dreamed existed. And to have had it ­lying underfoot, unsuspected, for so many centuries only adds to the sense of wonder surrounding its discovery.

The Ness of Brodgar site in Orkney. Photographs: Jim Richardson/National Geographic. "Bear in mind archaeologists and Victorian antiquaries have been poking over this ground for well over a century.
"What fascinated and surprised me personally was the engaging humanity of these Neolithic ruins.

Finest' Neolithic stone discovered at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar. The stone is inscribed on both sides. "Although I have done quite a few archaeology stories, all over the world, I sometimes find it hard to warm up to the Neolithic.
"The long, long ago world they inhabited, the lives they led, seems too remote for me to grasp - at least well enough for my imagination to get some traction. Not at the Ness of Brodgar.
"When I looked at those paved walkways, and admire that incredible craftsmanship in their dry stone work, I could readily imagine the people who built these walls and structures. They came alive to me as real people, just like us, and that gave these ruins a significance to me that Stone Age ruins never have before. It is an exciting find and will continue to be exciting for many years to come."

Ring of Brodgar Scottish Highlands. Orkney's county archaeologist, Julie Gibson, who arrived in the islands more than 30 years ago to excavate a Viking cemetery, said: "I've heard this place called the Egypt of the North. Turn over a rock around here and you're likely to find a new site."
The fascinating discoveries made at the Ness of Brodgar show us once again that our ancestors were much more advanced than previously thought. In time, all these findings could re-write the history of Scotland as we know it.

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Largest Collection Of Ancient "Cup-Marked" Rocks Ever Found In Scotland

MessageToEagle.com - There are many beautiful cup-marks in Scotland. These very ancient carvings are the key to ancient art of our ancestors.
These strange marks have puzzled both researchers and layman alike for more than a century.
David R. Cowan is an author of a fascinating book " Ley Lines and Earth Energies: A Groundbreaking Exploration of the Earth's Natural Energy and How It Affects Our Health" and an independent researcher and dowser with over 20 years experience.
He has investigated countless cup-marks during his over 30 years long research into the earth energy lines of the British landscape.



A fine display of a series of petroglyphs on base rock at Ormaig, Argyllshire. Photo credits: David R. Cowan' s website
These carvings represent a true mystery. More than one hundred theories regarding the reason behind cup-marks have been proposed and as Cowan says "these include a belief in magic, in the afterlife, use as a tuning device and a plan for Megalithic structures." And as he says, "each of these theories appears to have an element of truth in it."
From time to time, researchers are able to deliver some clues, which might lead to the rediscovery of the reason behind this very ancient and still mysterious art, but cup-marks still remain a mystery.


Cup-marks. Clava cairns. Photo credits: historicscotlandimages.gov-uk
Not long ago, an amazing ancient collection of 28 carved rocks has been discovered by amateur archeologist Douglas Scott, 64, from Tain.
This is the largest known concentration of cup-marked stones so far found in the north of Scotland.
The carved rocks, some almost 10 ft across have been found in the Highlands on a remote hill overlooking the Cromarty Firth.



'Cup-marks' are simple, roughly hemispherical depressions of about 2-10 cm diameter and up to 3 cm depth on the surface of many megaliths and on a number of separate 'cup-marked stones'.
Cup-marks often appear in groups which can consist of more than one hundred marks on a single stone.
The carvings are about 5,000 years-old and it is believed that they were part of an important ritual centre where ancient people worshipped the sun and performed rites connected to the underworld.
In an interview with the Scotman, Mr. Scott explains "that the first carved rocks on Swordale Hill - Druim Mor in Gaelic were discovered in 1985 by some farmers. A year later, he and and Bob Gourlay, then the Highland regional archaeologist, scoured Swordale Hill and recorded and photographed another 14 cup-marked rocks on the ridge.


This is one of the 28 up marked stones discovered on Swordale Hill, Evanton. Some of the stones measure 10ft across. Picture: Hemedia
Mr Gourlay has since died and over the past two years, Mr Scott, has completed the task of searching the entire hilltop and has now photographed and recorded 28 carved rocks across the site.


He said: "The finding of up to 28 cup-marked rocks on Druim Mor makes this the largest concentration of cup-marked stones so far found in the north of Scotland.
Cup-marked stones are not unique but this is the biggest concentration found in this area and that is quite significant in itself because no-one knew these monuments were up there."
Mr Scott added: "The carvings on the rocks are anywhere between 4,000 and 5,000 years old and comprise hollows, some surrounded by rings, and grooves which all line up to where the sun rises in midwinter.
There is a concentration of them, spread across 150 metres."
There is also a chambered burial cairn and a circular ditch, possible evidence of an ancient henge, on the hill.
"From the ridge, there are wide views across the fertile lands of the Cromarty Firth, the Black Isle and the distant Cairngorms. According to Gaelic folklore, these ancient people believed that the sun was rising and setting in the underworld.


Cup and ring petroglyph at the 'Laxe das Rodas' ('Stone of the Wheels'), Louro, Galicia. Image credit & copyright: Froaringus
"They would carve these cup marks into the rock at the times when the sun was coming up, out of what they believed was the underworld," Mr Scott said.
He said cup marks can be found throughout Europe, where they are associated with carvings of the sun, solar chariots and boats - the latter believed to carry souls of the dead to the underworld.
"The position of the cup marks, between the passage cairn and the henge, suggests that this was one of the most important ritual sites in the area," Mr Scott added.

Similar cup-marked stones have been discovered mostly mainly in Atlantic Europe (Northern England, Scotland,Ireland, Brittany, Portugal and, North West Spain and Mediterranean Europe (North West Italy, Thessalia Central Greece, Switzerland) although similar forms are also found throughout the world including Mexico, Brazil, Greece, and India where the oldest cup marks so far recorded are to be found in the Paeleolithic cave shelter site of Daraki-Chattan.
Cup-marked stones do generally not appear outside the distribution areas of megaliths, but when they appear on graves or stones nearby might have been signifiers of larger cosmological interrelations between monuments, living people, the landscape, the gods and the ancestors.

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Prehistoric Artifacts Out Of Nowhere -Their Origin And Purpose Are Totally Unknown

MessageToEagle.com - These strange artifacts are symmetrical in design and very skillfully manufactured. In form they appear to be quite modern, but they are not. These prehistoric artifacts of unknown origin were found mainly in Scotland and a few of them in England and Ireland.Many say they are hoaxes, but if that's true, why are they kept in museums as valuable objects?Archaeologists say these carved stone balls date to approximately 4000 BC, and are made of various stones ranging from sandstone to granite.

Click on image to enlargeCredits: Ashmolean Museum
They are all of a relative similar size and are decorated with carved evenly-spaced patterns of circular bosses or knobs around the surface of the sphere. The designs vary with the majority being based around a series of six bosses, but the number of bosses varies from 3-160.
Five carved stone balls from Scotland (AN1927.2727-2731). Credits: Ashmolean Museum
Particularly interesting are those unearthed at the Neolithic site at Skara Brae, one of the Orkney's most famous ancient sites dated from the late Neolithic - inhabited for around 600 years, between 3200BC and 2200BC.

More than 425 of these artifacts are now known and five of them are stored at the Ashmolean Museum. Three-hundred and seventy-five of these balls are much the same size, with a diameter o fabout 70mm, but there are also 12 large balls of 90-114mm diameter.They are different one from the other. Some are carved with four or six knobs plain and decorated, seven knobs, eight or even 33 knobs; their decorations are also varied. Many are carved with complex spiral patterns or cross-hatching on the faces.

However, despite their numbers, very little is known about carved stone balls and their purpose is still unknown. Very few of the balls are damaged. The do not have any signs of use and they have not been found in contexts that would suggest a specific function.

This carved stone ball is one of several fancy carved stone objects found at Skara Brae on Orkney. It was a prestige object, and dates from between 3400 and 2000 BC. The stone ball is covered with 50 pyramid-shaped knobs. 000-100-040-497-C. Credits: National Museums Scotland
Credits: Aberdeen University Museum
Credits: Aberdeen University Museum
Credits: Aberdeen University Museum
Credits: Aberdeen University Museum
Did they have a symbolic meaning? Did they symbolize prestige and power? Could the artifacts be linked to a much earlier - but unknown and undocumented period of time in the history of life on Earth? One thing is for sure - those who manufactured these artifacts must obviously have possessed rather advanced technology.Copyright © MessageToEagle.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or part without the express written permission of MessageToEagle.com. See also:

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