Greetings from a kilted vagabond archaeologist

**tulloch** · 8th September 14, 02:22 PM

Welcome from the highlands of Central Massachusetts Jason.

**ASinclair** · 9th September 14, 02:57 PM

Hello Jason!

**The Wizard of BC** · 9th September 14, 05:15 PM

I thought you might enjoy a pic of another digger of buried stuff.

**Bill** · 9th September 14, 06:05 PM

Hello and a warm welcome on this windy, chilly , wet Dakota night! I live along i-94 in North Dakota and depending on how far north you are in South Dakota I'll bet the weather is much the same, a bit like Scotland. No I've never been there but I have heard tales. At any rate welcome to the forum ! Come away in and sit a spell!

Slainte'!
Bill & Sir Brinkley the Exubrant my LeaderDog.

**dutchy kilted** · 11th September 14, 02:04 AM

Greetings from another Keystone Stater!

**CameronCat** · 11th September 14, 06:07 AM

Hi Cymrych, and welcome

I have this fantastic idea for a high-vis kilt made of fire-retardant synthetic...

Asked and answered -- see post #20 in this thread.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-fabric-62682/

Your intro and field of study resonates with me as we will be touring on Skye and Orkney very shortly. I am constantly gaining respect for how sophisticated these early civilizations were.

Should we ever meet in our mutual home state I'm looking forward to a fascinating conversation.

Again, welcome.

**Cymrych** · 14th September 14, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by CameronCat

Hi Cymrych, and welcome

Asked and answered -- see post #20 in this thread.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-fabric-62682/

Fantastic! As I said, so much to read and learn from this forum. It's got hidden gems in every nook and cranny! Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by CameronCat

Your intro and field of study resonates with me as we will be touring on Skye and Orkney very shortly. I am constantly gaining respect for how sophisticated these early civilizations were.

Should we ever meet in our mutual home state I'm looking forward to a fascinating conversation.

Again, welcome.

If you get the chance to get over to Lewis, check out the Callanish complex. Not Celtic, but much much older. Fascinating site. And on Orkney is of course the truly awesome Skara Brae, also pre-Celtic and a really fascinating Neolithic village site. Maeshowe, also on Orkney, is a chambered passage tomb with an alignment allowing it's central chamber to be illuminated by sunlight on the winter solstice, depending on when you'll be in Scotland.

I'm sure I'll be back in Pennsy for the winter at some point. I'll buy the first pint!

**Cymrych** · 14th September 14, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by Bill

Hello and a warm welcome on this windy, chilly , wet Dakota night! I live along i-94 in North Dakota and depending on how far north you are in South Dakota I'll bet the weather is much the same, a bit like Scotland.

Yes indeed, the weather was rather cool middle of last week. And of course, stomping around the pastures of north-central SD tends to get one's knees nice and wet and cold. I actually resorted to wearing a pair of my nice, wool kilt hose with garter ties under my normal work-wear jeans to combat the inevitable morning dew, lol!

As for the wind, I think Wyoming has NoDak and SoDak beat, but not by much. I still maintain that the "W" in Wyoming really stands for wind, and that if you mention it (the wind, that is) on a day when it is relatively calm, it may sense your comfort and come screaming down out of the north to wreck havoc on one's ability to wear a hat or hold a conversation outdoors!

I consider myself a cold-weather kind of guy, so cold wet and snowy doesn't really bother me too much. But cold wet snowy AND windy .... well, that just makes for a long, long day out digging holes or walking transects.

Thanks for the greetings, from Aberdeenshire, SD!

**Cymrych** · 14th September 14, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

I thought you might enjoy a pic of another digger of buried stuff.

Very nice! If this was taken somewhere in the States, I may have bumped into the fellow kilted dig monkey in the pic. That's a Marshaltown margin trowel next to him on the rock, so I'm betting either the US or Canada...

**Cymrych** · 14th September 14, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

I thought you might enjoy a pic of another digger of buried stuff.

Very nice! If this was taken somewhere in the States, I very well may have bumped into this fellow shovel jockey somewhere along the line. That's clearly a Marshaltown margin trowel on the rock next to him, so I'm betting somewhere in the US or Canada...