Ridge Runner said:
Ghost_Who_Walks said:
grubstake said:
That would have to be Roman I guess, so probably 1,000 years younger than those Bronze Age relics.
No reason for it to be Roman. They didn't invent the chariot and many civilisations were using them long before they arrived.
Yeah, Last night I watched a doco on King Tut and he had a load of them 3500 years ago and they were using them in the UK 4 or 5000 years ago
Whoah, gentlemen - it's not a pub quiz - let's stick to the relevant history of the area in question, please! AFAIK King Tut was never active in the Scottish Borders region and those pre-Roman "
many civilisations" were way over on the far side of Europe and the Asian steppes.
The Celts are known to have had chariots by 200BC (ie. 2200 years ago), but 4-5000 years ago (ie. 2000-3000BC) seems like a stretch. We're talking about a detectable axle, remember - so Bronze Age maybe (2500BC to 500BC), but most likely Iron Age (no earlier than 500BC).