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#ScottishHistory

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This Is My Glasgow

The pits, each about 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 6 feet deep, would have been filled by vertical stakes, sharpened to a point, waiting to impale anyone who stumbled into them. They're pretty much unqiue to the Roman presence in Scotland and highlight how threatened the Romans felt on this far northern edge of their empire.

#glasgow#falkirk#roughcastle
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This Is My Glasgow

There are a huge number of historical sites within easy striking distance of Glasgow, ranging from neolithic tombs to the site of the last siege of a castle in Britain (Stirling Castle in 1746). However, these are amongst my favourites. They're lilia, which are packs of large defensive pits dug by the Romans in front of Rough Castle Fort on the Antonine Wall around AD 140.

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A pack of large, deep pits dug by the Romans to help them defend Rough Castle Fort on the Antonine Wall.
#glasgow#falkirk#roughcastle
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RuthSalter

Sharing this (justly) furious verse from Ewan Robertson's song of c. 1880s about the Highland Clearances, telling Patrick Sellar to burn in hell.

Sellar, a factor (property manager) for the aristocratic Sutherland family, oversaw the forced eviction of tenants to make way for sheep, which could make landowners more money.

From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic as sung by Andrew Stewart; English John MacInnes; Scots Hamish Henderson.

Black text on a white backgrounds, reads: Gaelic: Ach nis, a Shellar, fhuair thu bàs ’S ma fhuair thu ceartas fhuair thu blàths An tcine leis ’n a loisg thu càch Gum faigh thu fhéin gu leòr dheth English: But now, Sellar, you are dead And if justice has been done you are warm! The fire with which you burnt others May you yourself have enough of it. Scots: Sellar, daith has ye in his grip; Ye needna think he’ll let ye slip. Justice ye’ve earned, and, by the Book, A warm assize ye winna jouk. The fires ye lit tae gut Strathnaver Ye’ll feel them noo—and roast forever. [From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic verse as sung by Andrew Stewart; English trans. John MacInnes; Scots trans. Hamish Henderson.]
#FolkSong#Scotland#ScottishHistory
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Scottish Lost Places

Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Christine Thomson in 1661 in Liberton.
Also accused: Effie Pothif, wife of Robert Wir, Elspeth Chib, Bessie Nicoson, Margaret Waldon, Marin Coran, Marion Craig, Margaret Handesyd, Margaret Hill, Susanna Baillie, Margaret Grieve, Elspeth Mowat, Jonet Hewat.
wikidata.org/entity/Q43393539
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

www.wikidata.orgChristine Thomsonaccused of witchcraft
#ScottishHistory#WitchTrials#Edinburgh
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AllyD

#OTD messages for 4th and 6th January highlighted stations along whole rail line which were closed in 1965 and 1969. Mapping these with OpenStreetMap and Leaflet (and also adding the Peebles line closure in Feb 1962) shows the impact of these days in limiting accessibility of a swathe of places across the south of Scotland.

Map of Scotland to the south of Glasgow and Edinburgh, marking the railway stations closed on 5th February 1962 (in purple), on 4th January 1965 (in red) and on 6th January 1969 (in orange).
#ScottishRailways#ScottishHistory
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Scottish Lost Places

Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Margaret Ker in 1661 in Bolton.
Also accused: Bessie Todrig, Bessie Dawsoun, Jonet Baigbie, Issobell Smith, Bessie Dickson.
wikidata.org/entity/Q43393060
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

www.wikidata.orgMargaret Keraccused of witchcraft
#ScottishHistory#WitchTrials#EastLothian
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Simon Brooke

I don't normally think of Empire as a very serious or highbrow podcast, but I'm really grateful to this episode for alerting me to the fact that Fibonacci and Michael Scott not only worked together but appear to have been friends.

I confess I checked a second source before fully believing this, but Fibonacci dedicated Liber Abaci to Scott.

#ScottishHistory

Empire: 194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money
Starting from: 00:31:58

Media file: pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/A27C8C

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