Archaeologists Thought They'd Found a Piece of Old Farm Equipment. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Iron Age Chariot Tire

Archaeologists Thought They'd Found a Piece of Old Farm Equipment. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Iron Age Chariot Tire

The more than 2,000-year-old tire was found among a trove of artifacts during excavations ahead of construction for a new golf course near Inverness, Scotland

A team of archaeologists who excavated a site in the Scottish Highlands found an extraordinary metal artifact that initially confused with rural scrap, but turned out to be a rare iron-age cart wheel, possibly the first of its kind discovered in that region. “We had never dug such a one. We were a little baffled,” said Andy Young, principal archaeologist of Avon Archaeology Highland, to the BBC Scotland. The finding was made during work prior to…