When metal detectorist Mariusz Stępień’s detector pinged in the Scottish Borders in 2020, he could never have guessed he was about to uncover one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in ...

Archeologists examining the remains of a woman who died more than 4,250 years ago have discovered surprising new information, thanks to DNA analysis. The remains were discovered at Achavanich in ...

In 1987, Scottish workers accidentally unearthed the burial of a Bronze Age woman during a road construction project. The stone, coffin-like tomb, called a cist, contained the woman's skeletal remains ...

Scientists are unraveling the secrets of a Bronze Age hoard containing jewelry that is thought to have been buried around 3,000 years ago. The hoard was discovered in Rosemarkie, a village in the ...

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Centuries ago on the Black Isle of Scotland, an ancient community gathered their most precious items, wrapped them and buried them in the ground. It was a place for safekeeping, where the “highly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TWENTYSHILLING BARROW as it was first uncovered. (photo credit: GUARD Archaeology) Archaeologists from GUARD Archaeology uncovered ...

The initial hint had not been a glitter of metal but a persistent mass of old vegetable fibrils. In an excavation of a housing-development at Rosemarkie on the Black Isle of Scotland, an archaeologist ...