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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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2,000-Year-Old Human and Animal Footprints Emerge on Scotland’s Storm-Battered Coast — Then Vanish Within Days
Scotland’s east coast does not usually give up its secrets gently. This time, it did — and then took them back almost immediately. After a series of violent winter storms tore through Lunan Bay in Angus, shifting dunes exposed a band of compact clay beneath the sand. Pressed into it were human and animal footprints…