High-Tech Scots

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, English scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.


Not to be outdone by the English, in the weeks that followed, an Irish archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the Belfast Telegraph read: "Irish archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 30 years earlier than the English".


One week later, the Glasgow Herald, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his a field near Paisley, Willie Broon, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely sod all. Willie has therefore concluded that 130 years ago, Scotland had already gone wireless."
Just makes you proud to be Scottish!