Alloa Alloa! Ancient Graves Discovered

Left: this is the Iron Age grave, you can just see a bone.

Photo by Bob Will. Courtesy GUARD and Historic Scotland.

Builders working on new houses in Scotland have found two ancient graves buried deep in the earth of the building site.

The first find was the grave of a Bronze Age woman. This would have been exciting enough, but two days later an Iron Age grave was found, giving archaeologists even more reason to celebrate!

Right: this is the grave of the Bronze Age woman, you can see her skeleton and a food pot found with her.





© Susan Mills, Clackmannan Museum.

As well as remains of bones, the Iron Age grave contains a sword and some jewellery. Experts believe that the man buried in the grave would have been an important person, possibly a warrior or chief.

Patrick Ashmore, the Head of Archaeology from an organisation called Historic Scotland spoke to us this week. He said "It is really a very thrilling discovery and I think it is going to tell us a lot about Iron Age society in that area."

Left: can you see the Iron Age bones and rings?

© as top photo.

The Bronze Age began in Britain in about 2000 BC, which is four thousand years ago, and continued for one and a half thousand years.

She isn't the only Bronze Age body who has been found in the area, other graves have been found locally in years gone by.

The Iron Age in Britain took place from about 750 BC until 42 AD, between the Bronze Age and the arrival of the Romans. Warrior or chief, can you imagine the secrets the Iron Age skeleton is keeping?

We'll keep you posted if anything else is discovered!