“The new archaeological evidence… enhances our perception of power, politics, economy and culture at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Wales were being laid.”
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Researchers have finally shed some new light on a lose kingdom of the Dark Ages .
Archaeologists have find evidence that the royal seat of the 6th - 100 realm of Rheged may have been in Galloway , Southern Scotland rather than Cumbria , Northwest England .
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Ronan Toolis , who led the dig works at Trusty ’s Hill Fort at Gatehouse of Fleet , tell theBBCthat the recede land was “ pre - eminent among the kingdoms of the north ” at its peak .
Many historiographer believe the Rheged kingdom placed its regal bum in Cumbria , but Christopher Bowles , co - director of the excavation oeuvre in Dumfries and Galloway , does not believe this was the showcase .
“ The new archaeologic evidence from Trusty ’s Hill heighten our perception of power , politics , saving , and cultivation at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland , England and Wales were being laid , ” Bowles said . “ The 2012 excavations show that Trusty ’s Hill was potential the royal seat of Rheged , a kingdom that had Galloway as its heartland . ”
The excavation recover evidence that Galloway was a royal stronghold , one whose kingdom Bowles said “ ripple through the chronicle and literature of Scotland and beyond . ”
“ This was a place of religious , ethnical and political innovation whose contribution to culture in Scotland has perhaps not been give due recognition , ” he added .
Toolis , who is get a book with Bowles reporting their finding , enunciate that unique Pictish symbols carve on Trusty ’s Hill basic principle puff them there . The carving are typically find oneself much farther Second Earl of Guilford .
“ The Galloway Picts Project was launch in 2012 to recover evidence for the archeologic linguistic context of these cutting , ” Toolis enunciate . “ But far from validating the existence of Galloway Picts , the archeological context revealed by our excavation instead betoken the carvings relate to a regal stronghold and place of inaugural for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600 . ”
More of the researchers ’ findings are now useable in their raw al-Qur’an , The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged .
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