Crannogs – the amazing artificial islands that abound in Perthshire’s many Lochs
The Reconstructed Crannog On Loch Tay Near Kenmore Over the last year in these “blogs “ we have looked at many of the older historical aspects of Perthshire and indeed Strathearn in particular . The Strath was a haven for the wandering tribes of the Neolithic period that were spreading out over Western Europe . Spreading out and into a Scotland that was not to emerge as a nation for nearly four and half thousand years . The ubiquitous standing stones that still stare down upon us from the farm fields all a round are a remnant of the ancient past . Recent archaeological investigations have thrown light upon the hitherto unknown Neolithic Cursus that bisects the ground that is the new Strathearn Campus . Diggings at Forteviot , some ten miles east of Crieff , have turned up numerous finds of this period .A Bronze age grave was unearthed complete with a gold – banded dagger still wrapped in its ...
