Bronze Age food vessel.Credit: University of Glasgow
Posted on 09/19/2022 5:39:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 5,000-year-old container, discovered behind a butcher's shop, is being exhibited at Kirkcaldy Galleries having been recently conserved by experts. Conservation has been completed as part of a wider project to find out more about the human remains and objects found on Kirkcaldy High Street in June 1980.
Archaeologists from the University of Glasgow, who are leading the study, will use a range of scientific techniques not available to their predecessors who carried out the dig.
Work to flatten the shop and a hotel 42 years ago was dramatically halted when a bulldozer driver caught sight of some partially buried bones. Three burial cists—or ancient coffins—emerged in the subsequent dig. Two held human remains that showed traces of burning and the other contained the vessel, a flint arrowhead and a flint knife.
The find is one of several 5,000-year-old discoveries to have been made in Kirkcaldy, suggesting that the area was an Early Bronze Age stronghold.
The patterned clay vessel was found in several pieces and reconstructed by University of Glasgow archaeologists at the time. All of the finds were added to the collection at Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery—now known as Kirkcaldy Galleries—where they have been cared for by curators ever since.
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Bronze Age food vessel.Credit: University of Glasgow
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