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 ...

A cluster of tightly packed cremation urns on a quiet Scottish hillside is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people died, and mourned, in the late Bronze Age. The 3,300-year-old remains, uncovered ...

Both Geneticists and Archaeologists at the University of Huddersfield have joined together to further research regarding funerary remains coinciding with settlement and migration patterns in Bronze ...

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 ...

The remains of two Bronze Age people found in a long-lost burial chamber by a farmer ploughing a field are revealing their secrets at Scotland’s new facility for storing and researching archaeological ...

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 ...

Remains discovered by a farmer in a long-forgotten burial chamber on the Isle of Bute have now been identified as two people from the Bronze Age. The chamber - or cist - was first discovered before ...

The museum is conserving the Hoard, a 3,000-year-old collection of over 500 unique Bronze Age objects with no known parallels. A Scottish museum is conserving an almost 3,000-year-old Bronze Age hoard ...

AN amulet once thought to have supernatural power, evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5000 years ago, and a lost medieval ...

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