er, what about older chambered cairns in Scotland?
... not claiming that the Scots invented them or anything daft (given that the Scots didn't arrive til the Dark Ages) but if chambered burial cairns were built in Dumfriesshire/Aberdeenshire/Orkney etc in the Neolithic period, then the story of diffusion of culture through the British Isles after the last Ice Age may be just a bit more complex...
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Anything involving engineering or building or inventing
anything ever was done by The Scotch, particularly while they were being repressed by the Victorians, and had they remained independent after their Panamanian sojourn, Alex Salmond would these days wipe his arse with panda fur while the rest of the impoverished planet kneels before the might of his all conquering Jockotopia....or not the potato headed cnut, and don't get me started on Sturgeon.
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