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Grindlecat said - how do you 'invent' a kilt...its a piece of cloth isnt it! by that standard, evrybody who got arouind to weaving, 'invented' the kilt!
You could say the same for bagpipes. Anyone who had a spare pig etc.
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Hadn't noticed that, but not my fault i just cut and pasted it,
I read a book while in Orkney that a machine driver gave which claimed the Trojen war was actual over Tin in Cornwall can't remember the argument but does anyone have any further information on this or should i start a new thread
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There's a book called "Where Troy Once Stood" by Iman Jacob Wilkins which has Troy in Cambridgeshire, which in this sort of fantasy world is not that far from Cornwall.
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Maybe thats the one, but i am sure it had Maiden castle in the mix , which is a bit closure to cornwall i guess,
Any other ones ????
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11th March 2010, 02:53 PM
I was in the British Museum on Tuesday and there has been faience objects discovered in Britain dating to the Iron Age, which I wasn't aware of previously.
Not that I'm agreeing with the rest of the article!
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11th March 2010, 07:31 PM
Maggie, im alarmed! "You could say the same for bagpipes. Anyone who had a spare pig etc.".....are you suggesting that bagpipes were the product of an idle moment, contemplating the possibilities of a pig and a load of hollow reeds....i thought they were the product of a highly musically evolved people....obviousley Celts, who then gave the idea to the visiting Egyptian fiaence bead sellers....in their wee boat
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11th March 2010, 07:37 PM
I often contemplate pigs and other swine-related animals and a pile of hollow reeds I keep by my desk... still. it passes the time...
listen to this... squeal piggy squeal .... my ears are bleeding (which is why we sent him to London!)
[video=youtube;JJm_bSTJI4U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm_bSTJI4U[/video]
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11th March 2010, 08:58 PM
Grindlecat - well the thing is there are and I don't think there ever was pigs on the Lamb island (the one owned by Uri Geller), only lots of birds, there weren't even lambs. I suppose my point is that there are many countries who have some form of bagpipes, Bulgaria for example uses the body of a pig (or maybe a goat) we in Scotland have covered everything in tartan but you can bet an animal was involved originally.
