One of the difficulties in finding out about the past is that where there have been battles and wars in the past, the history is usually written by the victors.
Of late I have been reading about Scottish History, and I have come aross a most interesting book called, " A Chain of Error in Scottish History." Of that there will be more in another post.
The South of Scotland is rich in site going back many thousands of years, and during last week I managed visit to a couple of sites.
One was Barsalloch Fort. The fort lies about a mile and a half east of Port William, on the A747 shore road. It is well marked with a parking bay beside it. There is a flight of steps leading up to the fort.
Though it bears the name fort, it was actually a farmstead, home to a few families. There are several forts or camps of this type in the Dumfries and Galloway region. This site has not been excavated, but the ditch is easily observed.
The other site I visited was on the A75 between Newton Stewart and Gatehouse of Fleet. This is a site with two seperate chambered cairns called Cairn Holy.
The cairns are about 4000 years old. The covering stones were removed a long time ago and both cairns lie open to the sky.The cairns were partially excavated in 1949.
Cairn II is traditionally believed to have been the burial place of a mythical Scottish King called Galdus.
Little of human evidence was found in either cairn. Some stone from the iland of Arran was found, along with some pottery from England and part of a ceremonial axe from the Alps.
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/propertydetail.htm?PropID=PL_048
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/portwilliam/barsallochfort/index.html
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/propertydetail.htm?PropID=PL_029
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