"Lost Dark Age Kingdom Uncovered in Scotland " Topic

"Archaeologists may have finally found the lost kingdom of Rheged, the most elusive of all the sixth century kingdoms of Dark Age Britain.

The mysterious kingdom was pre-eminent in northern Britain in the sixth century, but faded into obscurity after it was deliberately destroyed in the beginning of the following century.

Historians had speculated that the kingdom was headquartered in Cumbria, a county in north west England, but no evidence of it was ever found. Then digs carried in 2012 at Trusty's Hill, which overlooks the Fleet valley in Galloway in south-west Scotland, revealed clues of the presence of a royal stronghold.

"Our excavation revealed all the hallmarks of an early medieval royal site," Ronan Toolis at GUARD Archaeology in Glasgow, told Seeker…"
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Armand

How did this get tagged as a Lost Dark Age Kingdom? It's an interesting site but there is no evidence as yet to suggest a royal link.

Don't get me wrong the site is quite interesting on its own merits but this looks like typical media misreporting. On a related note Scottish excavations can currently receive massive grants running into six figures to continue investigations if of sufficient importance to the Scottish Nation (tm) so perhaps this was a deliberate misrepresentation.

How did this get tagged as a Lost Dark Age Kingdom?

Because that's what the excavator's book's called! link _If_ it's erroneous, then for once we can blame the excavators, not the media.

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Amicalement
Armand

More likely to be Strathclyde than Rheged IMHO.