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Mystery of the Hanging Bowls Suffolk

Submitted by Thorgrim on Sunday, 13 March 2005  Page Views: 14774

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ONE of the priceless treasures found at the Sutton Hoo burial site is returning home to feature in a new exhibition. The mysterious "Celtic" hanging bowl is being loaned from the British Museum to launch the new season at the National Trust centre at the site, believed to be the resting place of Raedwald, Saxon king of East Anglia, and his ship. Archaeologists and historians have been unable to agree on the use of the fragile 1,500 year old bowl – though it may have served in pagan religious ceremonies.

The Sutton Hoo bowl is thought to be "Celtic" and is decorated with elaborate patterns, typical of art from the Iron Age. It was possibly made by a British craftsman working in East Anglia, or perhaps the Anglo-Saxons borrowed designs from the British when they arrived. It has been repaired by an Anglo-Saxon craftsman.

It will form part of the new exhibition "Celts and Saxons – The Mystery of the Hanging Bowls", which focuses on the impact of the Anglo-Saxon invaders on the local community and how this was reflected through the art of the intruders. The exhibition opens to the public on March 19 – admission is adult £5, child £2.50. National Trust members free.
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Partlow on Wednesday, 30 March 2005
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I've just now seen this string and am stuck on the entry made regarding Hadrian's wall being a futile barrier to keep the marauding Picts out of Roman Britain. I understand it to be a political boundary which also served as a trading point between Picts and Romanised people, etc. I feel there was a bit more cooperation and civility among different people in Britain back then, than is realised. Is anyone familier with the "Dark Age" burials in Warwickshire?
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by nicoladidsbury on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
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Basically, we Britons have a very complicated, mixed up bunch of genes.
There was a roman auxiliary unit based at the fort on Hadrian's Wall called Aballava at Brugh-by-Sands, in northern Cumbria. This unit of soliders were from the Roman province of Mauretania in North Africa, modern Morocco. 2000 years later there are still people living around this area with unusually tight, curley hair. It can't be proved that they are the ancestors of the Roman soliders, but it is definately a possibility.
Amazing, isn't it....
http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/pages/historical/archaeology.htm
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
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That's correct, Nicola. The Picts were fantasic artists, metalworkers and sculptors. The Scots destroyed them so completely (ethnic cleansing?) that we know very little about them other than the names of their kingdoms. It really was the death of a nation.

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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Anonymous on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
The ancient British tribes of what is now southern Scotland were called The Damnonii, Novantae, Selgovae and Votadini. These British tribes spoke a language now recalled as "old welsh"
The author Alistair Moffat has written a fantastic book, "Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms" which is based on these tribes, and well worth a read for anyone interested in the pre and post roman history of Southern Scotland and Northern England.
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
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The only "Scott" I know of is Sir Walter Scott. The Scots (from the Roman name Scotti) were Irish invaders. They settled in Western Scotland (Dalriada) as well as in Westmorland, Wales and Cornwall. As previously indicated, the Celts were a mid European tribe from the Alps. Since 1707, the term "Celtic" has been misused for the indigenous peoples of Britain and Ireland - none were Celts. The Picts (Picti) were destroyed by the Scots as they moved eastwards. Kenneth mac Alpin finally destroyed them in 840 AD and Pictland became Scotland.
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http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411886
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Anonymous on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
Well, who were the Scotts then, if not Celts? I am mostly Scottish by blood, so it would be nice to know. One thing I found about the Scots treachery against the Picts was most disturbing, being of Scottish heritage. MacAlpin's Treason:
Historians have traced a complicated series of intermarriages by seven Pict royal houses. The end of the Pict royal bloodline came when the crown of Alba and the title "Rex Pictorum", King of the Picts, passed to a Celtic Scot by the name of Kenneth MacAlpin, a son of a Pictish princess. Kenneth MacAlpin harbored familial hatred of the Picts arising from his father's kingship over the Scots being lost to the Pictish king Oengus, who had ruled as both King of Picts and Scots. In an act known as "MacAlpin's Treason", Kenneth murdered the members of the remaining seven royal houses thus securing the Alba throne for the Scots, and the eventual erasure from history of the Pictish race, culture and history. The Picts were fiercely anti-Roman,
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Thorgrim on Sunday, 13 March 2005
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Perhaps when the Dark Age Portal starts we should include an article on origins! Scotland was Pictish, Ireland was Scottish, Wales was British and only became Welsh when England became English! The whole business of commercial Celtic twaddle infuriates me. The indigenous British people - our incredibly gifted ancestors with their wonderful art, culture, music, literature, myths, legends, imagination etc etc - deserve a name of their own, not one borrowed by mistake from Austria. The textbooks of my youth got it right - they were the Ancient Britons (not always painted bright blue though!)

PS. Whisper it not to the French, but the Franks came from a part of Germany just east of the Rhine!
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    Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by hamish on Tuesday, 15 March 2005
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    Ireland wasn't Scottish. The Scots were a people who lived in the northern part of Ireland and were forced out of that area. They established a foothold in what is now Argyll which they called Dalriada.More and more emigrated to Dalriada and eventually spilled over into Pictland.Intermarriage occured between the ruling classes which led to McAlpin eventually becoming Ard Righ of Picts and Scots,the country was then called Alba.The Cruithna were not wiped out but were absorbed in the Union. The country wasn't called Scotland for some time.
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by enkidu41 on Sunday, 13 March 2005
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I couldn't agree more Thorgrim. And it's not just the Iron Age Britons - the modern day non-English Britons like to think of themselves as Celtic also. This is harmless enough in itself but gives completely the wrong implications about their ancestry. The trouble is the word in its incorrect usage is now ingrained in not only general but, most unforgivably, in archaeological usage.
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Re: Mystery of the Hanging Bowls by Thorgrim on Sunday, 13 March 2005
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Isn't it time that the term "Celtic" was discarded when referring to the Iron Age people of Britain? They were Britons - the Romans didn't call them Celts, they didn't call themselves Celts and no one did until Edward Lluyd in 1707. Soon after, all the bogus Celtic/Druidic nonsense gathered momentum which it still enjoys. The real Celts were centred around land to the north of the Alps around 800-600 BC. They were called the Keltoi by the neighbouring Greeks.
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