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Archaeologists Return to Scotland’s Largest Pictish Fort, a Burned Power Base on the Moray Firth
Archaeologists are returning to Burghead, the largest known Pictish fort in Scotland and one of the most important early medieval strongholds in northern Britain. The University of Aberdeen’s Northern Picts project will resume work at the Moray Firth site between August 11 and 25, 2026. Visitors will be able to watch the excavation, while an…
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Iron Age Burial in Scotland Reveals Possible Brain Removal and Human Bone Tools
An Iron Age burial in northern Scotland has revealed one of the most unusual examples of postmortem body treatment yet identified in prehistoric Britain. A new study published in the journal Antiquity reports that researchers re-examined the remains of two individuals buried in a low stone cairn at Loch Borralie, on the Durness Peninsula in…
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Oldest Known Tartan? 16th-Century Fabric Discovered in Scottish Highlands Bog
A faded piece of cloth, quietly preserved for decades in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands, is now rewriting the early history of tartan. New scientific analysis suggests the fragment—first recovered in the early 1980s in Glen Affric—may represent the oldest known example of traditional tartan ever identified in Scotland. Scientific Tests Reveal Unexpected…
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Unknown Roman Fortlet Discovered Beneath Gardens Along Scotland’s Antonine Wall
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a previously unknown Roman fortlet beneath the back gardens of residential homes in Bearsden, near Glasgow, shedding new light on the defensive system of the Antonine Wall, the northernmost frontier ever built by the Roman Empire in Britain. The discovery, revealed in newly published research by GUARD Archaeology, emerged…