Just a few weeks back , secret house GUARD Archaeology announced that they had pick up the remnants of a long - lost and formerly mythicalancient kingdomburied beneath the hill of Scotland . Now it seems they ’ve struck gold yet again – quite literally in fact – as their team has just expose a gem treasure trove of 3,000 - year - old Bronze Age wonders within the very same nation .
A bronze steel and a gilded spear-point are among some of the raiment dug from the pelting - intoxicate earth near the township of Carnoustie , mighty by the east seashore of the northern nation .
Although the immaculately preserved sword is soak up everyone ’s attending , it ’s the spearpoint that ’s really proving to be the Book of Revelation – only a handful have ever been recovered in the UK . Although spearheads themselves were fairly vernacular objects back then , the fact that this one had gold tot to it implies it had some symbolical time value beyond the norm – and , invitingly , we may never know what .
The 3,000 - year - onetime sword along with the remains of a sheath . GUARD Archaeology
Hilts , wooden scabbard , furs , and textiles all relating to weaponry were also excavated at the site , along with a few surrounding social organization . It seems like this country was occupied by a highly litigious group of ancient Britons that occupy in the arena long ago .
Hailing this motherlode as the “ find of a lifetime ” , GUARD Archaeology ’s undertaking officer Alan Hunter Blair toldBBC Newsthat “ it is very unusual to recover such artefact in a modern archaeological dig , which can reveal so much about the context of its burial . ”
Remarkably , the team also came across the ruins of a Neolithic ( late Stone Age ) edifice , perhaps a meeting hall , at the same location , one that ’s around 6,000 years one-time . This stand for that these ruins would have been as one-time to the Bronze Age warriors and settler as their recovered weapon are to us .
Claire Herbert of ACAS , archeological advisers to Angus Council , said in astatementthat “ the archaeology expose at Carnoustie is doubtlessly of national and international import , adding that it will provide “ an invaluable chance to learn more about how people in Angus lived in the Neolithic and Bronze Age . ”
It appears that this firm is on a roll right now . Just this January , their researcher told the macrocosm that the lose Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged – something that some thought was just a legend , not a real matter – had been found at Trust ’s Hill in Galloway .
Excavating the sword . Livius Drusus / GUARD Archaeology via Vimeo
The excavations at both sites are still underway , however , so do n’t think this is the conclusion of the discoveries just yet . Watch this space !
