tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1653684031687652323..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: EdinburghCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-65953106423777017332012-07-28T21:20:56.700-04:002012-07-28T21:20:56.700-04:00Though it gets a lot of ire from rural Scots commu...Though it gets a lot of ire from rural Scots communities for appropriating 'their' artefacts, the NMS is a wonderful storehouse imaginatively displayed, neither too little nor too much. Also, I admire very much (and perhaps you also noticed) how the main comprehensible text we have in anything like Pictish, the Pictish king-list, is displayed by having it <b>carved into the walls of the gallery</b>. Is it because of its importance, or its ephemerality so that it must be preserved? Or is it just because the Picts' writing is otherwise also all on stone? Either way, it's this kind of reflection that led me to spark up about the symbol stones when you were first bruiting work on lithic stuff hereabouts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-26589019166516557422012-06-17T13:21:49.831-04:002012-06-17T13:21:49.831-04:00Sorry for the terrible formatting, the result of b...Sorry for the terrible formatting, the result of blogging from an iPad.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com