4th November 2005, 05:08 PM
Fear not judy... I can see no personal slights in this thread. What I can see is an exciting look into archaeology/ identity / concepts of origin and touching on the odd concept where it is ok for 'British Archaeology' to exploit another countries archaeology .... what would we feel if a team of Uzbeck archaeologists for example turned up in Little Diddleswick and began opening up trenches and employing locals as shovelmen?
That aside... a comment of Scottish Archaeology to make you laugh... when I was working at Melrose Abbey and we found the heart of Robert the Bruce (a true Scot... ooooops... I mean Anglo Norman!) it fell to me as the only Scottish (by birth) person on the site team to carry his heart to Edinburgh... this was at the request of teh site Director (also english) who laughed and suggested I had to represent the 13 knights of scotland who first carried his heart!
:face-approve:
But you are right about an emasculation of what it is to be English.. too much embarresment about the past... rather than moving forward... (blimey the Scots know b####r all about their real past... its all Bonnie Prince Charlie and how the Scots drove out the Romans .... I weep sometimes)[:0]
Anyhoo.... I feel the conference would be best held at a 'hub point in the middle of the UK... So York / Bradford / Sheffield... York preffered.
Another day another WSI?
That aside... a comment of Scottish Archaeology to make you laugh... when I was working at Melrose Abbey and we found the heart of Robert the Bruce (a true Scot... ooooops... I mean Anglo Norman!) it fell to me as the only Scottish (by birth) person on the site team to carry his heart to Edinburgh... this was at the request of teh site Director (also english) who laughed and suggested I had to represent the 13 knights of scotland who first carried his heart!
:face-approve:
But you are right about an emasculation of what it is to be English.. too much embarresment about the past... rather than moving forward... (blimey the Scots know b####r all about their real past... its all Bonnie Prince Charlie and how the Scots drove out the Romans .... I weep sometimes)[:0]
Anyhoo.... I feel the conference would be best held at a 'hub point in the middle of the UK... So York / Bradford / Sheffield... York preffered.
Another day another WSI?