{"id":1765,"date":"2012-09-06T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:57:24","slug":"salen-primary-pupils-baliscate-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Salen Primary Pupils Baliscate Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Monday 3rd<\/sup> September Salen Primary pupils went to the Baliscate site in Tobermory which is being excavated by Argyll Archaeology and Mull Museum (sponsored by the Nati\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adonal Lottery and others). \u00a0 At the site we met Olive and Hylda. Once we were there we saw archaeologists digging for evidence of an old chapel (7th<\/sup> C). \u00a0 Luckily enough we were able to see the artefacts found in the chapel such as: teeth, the Bullen stone and the Leacht that the cross would stand on, and lots more fascinating and interesting things!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Whilst we were looking in the trenches we saw people digging and looking for flint, pot and bones.\u00a0 \u00a0At one of the trenches we saw a special stone named the Bullen stone. \u00a0 In the past people used to turn the stone clock- wise and it would make a wish, however, if they turned the stone anti- clockwise it would make a curse!<\/p>\n

After that trench we moved on to the shepherd\u2019s trench where we saw the remains of a shepherd\u2019s house from about 200 hundred years ago, and it was very small.\u00a0\u00a0 In that trench the archaeologists found some pottery.<\/p>\n

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Next we went in to the tent to see what the archaeologists had found!\u00a0 Amazingly they had discovered an arrow head over 4,000 years old, children\u2019s teeth, flint, charcoal and a mystery object.<\/p>\n

At the last trench we saw the remains of an old house with very small rooms in it.\u00a0 Time Team thought the wee house was a monk\u2019s cell but now the archaeologists think it was a house.<\/p>\n

Our visit to Blaiscate was extremely fascinating and very exciting and we would like to go back some time!<\/p>\n

By Kerrie, Iain, Ewan and Talia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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