Is this the way to Amarillo? No - Lost Scottish Village Pops up Again

Not Lost Just Mislaid - Medieval Village Found Once More

 When the white heat of modern technology came to Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s it wasn’t without cost and amongst the stuff we lost was a medieval village from a thousand years ago. It wasn’t on any A-Z mark you, but Cadzow as well as being a cracking score in Scrabble was a tiny place owned by the Hamiltons who gave their name to the town and the nearby motorway services.

Discoveries Unearthed

At the site they have discovered coins, pottery and clay smoking pipes, although my frazzled brain tells me that smoking wasn’t common until after the discovery of the New World. Which reminds me of the old joke about a man who called his wife “Treasure,” I once asked him why and he said to me “People were always asking me where I dug her up from!”

The village was thought to have been lost in the building of the M74, but surprisingly and probably to the annoyance of the people trying to extend and widen the motorway with some £500m of the taxpayers money from Transport Scotland it has been refound.

Whichever James That Was

James II allowed the Scrabble score village to be renamed Hamilton in 1445, yes I had to look up which one James II was, and he was the one who became king as a bairn, aged 6, when the previous king was knocked off by the usual conniving relatives. Anyway back to the village which became Hamilton until it was ineffectively bulldozed to make way for the M74. Now archaeologists are celebrating the rediscovery.

Lilliputian Fantasies Are Collectible

Now you don’t have to be an archaeologist armed with a bulldozer to discover the delights of village life, no we have the most brilliant series of collectibles that you can shake a long arm digger at and they are at a very reasonable price too. They are Lilliput Lane and they attract words like charming, delightful and whimsy.  You can start your collection with just a few quid and believe me they’ll be a joy forever.

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