A tale of two hoards: Interpreting unusual Bronze Age collections from Carnoustie and Rosemarkie

A tale of two hoards: Interpreting unusual Bronze Age collections from Carnoustie and Rosemarkie

Bronze Age hoards tend to be found in watery locations – rivers, lochs, bogs – where they are routinely interpreted as ritual votive deposits. Two recently published examples, however, discovered 150 miles apart in Scotland, came from contemporary Bronze Age settlements. Rachel Buckley explains what micro-excavation of their strikingly different contents has revealed about why these collections may have been buried 3,000 years ago.