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Were the Scots Irish?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ewan Campbell
Ewan Campbell*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
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The author attributes the claimed migrations of the Irish into Argyll to a set of élite origin myths, finding no support in archaeological evidence. He goes on to ask how the Iron Age populations of Argyll established and changed their personal and group identity.

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origin mythsmigrationScotsIrishArgyll

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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 288 , June 2001, pp. 285 - 292
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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