A Bronze Age wrist guard was found at Drumnadrochit [© AOC Archaeology]
Posted on 12/12/2015 9:12:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The remains of 14 houses and stone tools, including knives, have been described as "one of the biggest complexes of Bronze Age settlement in the Scottish isles".
The finds on the beach could be more than 4,000 years old.
Archaeologists believe the houses were buried by sand dunes in the second millennium BC -- but have recently been exposed by the actions of weather and the sea.
Prof Jane Downes and Christopher Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands, Prof Colin Richards, of the University of Manchester and Dr Vicki Cummings, of University of Central Lancashire, made the discovery.
They were on a sea shore walk to visit a known archaeological site when they spotted the remains of the houses and stone tools.
Archaeologists came across the Bronze Age settlement while on a walk to a known archaeological site.
Prof Downes, who specialises in the Bronze Age, said: "This must be one of the biggest complexes of Bronze Age settlement in the Scottish isles, rivalling the spreads of hut circles in other parts of mainland Scotland."
The scale of the Sanday has been described as "unparalleled in Orkney". The islands are well-known for the Skara Brae Neolithic settlement...
Skeletal remains found at Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness were identified in February as dating back to the Early Bronze Age.
A wrist guard, for use with a bow and arrow, and shards of pottery were among remains found in a burial cist that was uncovered during work to build a new health centre.
Evidence of Bronze and Iron Age settlements were found at the site of the new Inverness Campus. The remains of timber-built roundhouses and crop marks were recorded at East Beechwood.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
A Bronze Age wrist guard was found at Drumnadrochit [© AOC Archaeology]
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Did they find the bowling ball and shoes too? :o)
Only the heads of their golf clubs have survived, and are misinterpreted as axes and grinding tools.
Hehe! Good one!
There must be Bronze Age settlements near me because I scoop up plenty of pieces that look like that with the backhoe when I’m replacing septic leach fields.
OMG, is it global bronzing?
Do you think that is bone or ceramic?
My great grandmother would go to that part of the desert where the Petrified Forest is now and pick up pieces of wood that had petrified.
But I don’t think I could make myself pick up a piece of petrified poop.
On the other hand, if you could overcome queasiness you could say you actually polished a turd.
Take one to a party, impress women, go on TV, etc. “Watch very carefully as I pull this out of the air—a rock hard piece of dinosaurs excrement! Now, I take this Turtle Wax and ....
Looks like a burrito.
Now find the rest of the gun! :)
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