Intriguing, ancient site in Pollok Park, Glasgow which may date from the Iron Age.
(Above image represents an artist's impression of the site during the iron-age) In the British Isles (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales) we are well endowed with tangible evidence of our forebears dating back to the Neolithic period (about 5000 years ago) and beyond. Today, I visited an intriguing site is a public park (Pollok Park) in south Glasgow which the archaeologists and historians seemingly cannot conclusively determine the dateline and purpose of although latest thinking points towards a defended community from the iron-age (about 600 BC- 100 AD), as illustrated above. The visible rermains today consist of a semi-circular bank surrounded by a deep, ditch type structure which is currently about six feet deep but may have been double this depth when originally constructed. If the site does date to the iron-age then construction may have been undertaken by teams of men using deer...