But, then again . . . . .

By TrikinDave

Dun Law Wind Farm.

We met Sis & Co. at the House of Soutra Coffee Shop this morning as they were on their way back home, and then we moved on to Soutra Aisle - the site of an Augustinian hospital - to give them a quick history lesson.

During the thirteenth century, they were performing advanced surgery here; it is recorded that they were successfully removing arrowheads from inside soldiers' skulls with the victims surviving the ordeal though, I'm sure that there were their failures as well. The excavations have revealed medical waste including packets of herbs enabling the researchers to reconstruct the recipes for various medicines - such as anaesthetics, and the ground is contaminated with both anthrax and tetanus spores (archaeologists wear protective clothing here and think it should be standard procedure on all excavations). All mind-boggling stuff for an institution that was fully operational from the mid twelfth century for 300 years.
Professor Brian Moffat, the lead researcher, is a very popular lecturer in the area and this link will take you to a summary of his findings published in the "Telegraph."

From here, you can see the Soutra wind farm, known properly as Dun Law Wind Farm, consisting of 26 turbines which rotate so quietly that you stand in the middle of them  and hear nothing but the chirruping of the song birds and, on a day like today, they don't look too bad.

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