MOSCOW, December 16 - RIA Novosti . Scottish archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen and received a grant of permission to conduct excavations on the territory of those parts of Ireland and Scotland, where there were little known "barbarian kingdoms" that emerged after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the British Broadcasting Company reported "Bi-Bi-Si."
"In contrast to the systemic research of the Roman Empire, the study of the kingdoms of Northern Europe in the first millennium AD was carried out only on a local level. We will be able to compare and find similarities and differences in the life of the Pictish kingdom in Northern Scotland and the Gaelic State Dal Riada in Northern Ireland, Argyll and Munster ", - says Gordon Noble (Gordon Noble), head of the excavation.
North of the British Isles, in contrast to England and Wales, was never conquered by the Romans, who, after several unsuccessful attempts to conquer Scotland and Ireland, fenced off from them the famous Hadrian's Wall at the beginning of the 2nd century AD. After the collapse of the Roman Empire and the departure of the legions with Albion in the early 5th century AD, the barbarian Picts and other tribes of the Celts began to create their own state.
It tells the Noble, the existence and the relations of these countries, as well as the history of the conquest of the Saxons and Angles, today only legend we know, these stories of King Arthur, and researchers almost did not conduct any systematic excavation aimed at the disclosure of the secrets of these "lost kingdoms" .
Archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen's plan to fill this gap in the history of the UK, with the support of the fund Leverhalm (Leverhulme), which has allocated about one million pounds for such excavation.
According to Noble, they will be carried out not only in the vicinity of Aberdeen, where once there were the settlements of the Picts, but also in the city Burghed in the east of Scotland, where the ruins of the Picts are located, as well as in Ireland, close to the famous "road of giants", built according to mythology, the first inhabitants of the emerald Isle.
© Photo: National Museum of Ireland
The scientists hope that their excavations will help not only to understand how the Celtic kingdom of living, but also to reveal the little-known details of how the European states and peoples were changing as we move from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
As an archaeologist says his team has already held the first preliminary excavations in the vicinity of Aberdeen and found many artefacts, including Byzantine origin, which indicate that the north of Britain and its other regions are not cut off from the rest of the world, as previously thought. These kingdoms, suggest scientists are actively traded and were well acquainted representatives of the "center of civilization" of the time.
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