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25th February 2021, 12:20 PM
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vic mcclymont
#68, why would Scotland dump its Lowlanders?
Sassenach. Highlands word for an English person; literally means Saxon.
Do understand: English person or a Lowland Scot.
How far do we need to go back?
The Romans arrived in the Scottish Lowlands in A.D. 80 but left few traces of their stay. During the period known as the Dark Ages, four groups emerged in Scotland: the Picts in the north; the Scots (of Irish origin) in the west; the Britons, who were related to the Welsh, in the southwest; and the Angles in the southeast.
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25th February 2021, 12:21 PM
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True meaning is for a lowland Scot.
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25th February 2021, 12:24 PM
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Word origin:
C18: from Scottish Gaelic Sasunnach, Irish Sasanach, from Late Latin saxonēs - Saxons
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25th February 2021, 01:24 PM
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Much as people are terrified of explosive dumping grounds a lot of which are marked as spoil grounds on British Admiralty charts to advice against anchoring as the holding power will be poorer. When explosives after the war were dumped the detonators would have been removed , after 70 years underwater and their water tightness having also been breached, I think the chances of explosion would be less than a soaking wet swan vestas match on a piece of foolscap paper. JS
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25th February 2021, 01:51 PM
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They also dumped chemical weapons Beaufirts Dyke is 700/1000 feet deep . One of the most surveyed wrecks around the UK is SS Richard Montgomery. The powers that be are planning to remove the masts from this ship as they are concerned if and when they corrode through they may crash down on the hull and cause an explosion, bye bye Sheerness.PAY-SS-Richard-Montgomery.jpg
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25th February 2021, 01:56 PM
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What newspaper is that from ? JS
There are such things as official secrets acts. And if there was any panic from such a Story it would never have been allowed to have been printed .
To anyone who has any idea of salvage work and todays technology if there was any clear and present danger there it would have been removed long before now. It would be much easier than removing masts, which is probably info. To show people something is being done. and any real danger otherwise will have been assessed and the decisions made long ago. If one wants to worry about such let them, I wouldn’t lose any sleep of long past history. Probably the hull is lying under 20 feet of silt in any case. JS.
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25th February 2021, 02:02 PM
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