We are learning more about those Europeans, who successfully resisted the Roman conquerors! Or why the Scottish people have a special place in history.
"Archaeologists using Lidar have found 134 previously unknown settlements north of Hadrian’s Wall. The wall, which today lies close to the border between England and Scotland, is a fortification constructed by Roman Emperor Hadrian. Stretching from sea to sea, the wall served as a defensive mechanism against “barbarian” populations, and much of the area beyond the wall is relatively unexplored archaeologically. ...
But the overall painting reveals a dense distribution of sites, which hints at an organized population, well-settled population. ..."
But the overall painting reveals a dense distribution of sites, which hints at an organized population, well-settled population. ..."
"The British Academy project made systematic use of high-resolution lidar data made available by the Scottish Government to prospect for previously unknown sites and review previously known sites in a common framework. This work established a corpus of 704 definite, probable or possible Iron Age settlement locations in the study area, of which 570 were previously known sites and 134 were new discoveries (Figure 4). The latter were made despite parts of the study area being well surveyed in the past (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1997), demonstrating the potential of lidar data to add considerably to our understandings of later prehistoric settlement patterns. This is illustrated, for example, by the discovery of two previously unknown Iron Age enclosures near Range Castle (Figure 5) and by the enclosure identified at Beattock (Figure 6). The survey work supports assessment of the broad representativity of known settlement distributions—a crucial factor in analysing the Iron Age landscape. Our assessment has expanded the corpus of sites and filled some gaps in the landscape, but at the same time confirmed that, in broad terms, the overall distribution of indigenous sites has a regularity that probably reflects Iron Age settlement patterns. Further assessment of the potential impact of the Roman presence requires detailed analysis, but the foundation to ensure a deeper understanding of the known settlement pattern has been laid within our pilot project."
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