'The Late Bronze Age metal hoard' In:  Ballin Smith, Beverley, Hunter Blair, Alan and Bailie, Warren, Neolithic timber halls and a Bronze Age settlement with hoard at Carnoustie, Angus

Bailie, Warren; Hunter Blair, Alan; Barbour, Jordan; Cameron, Esther; Cowie, Trevor; Evans, Jane; Harris, Susanna; Hermann, Raphael; Murray, Will; Northover, Peter; O’Connor, Brendan; Pashley, Vanessa; Pernicka, Ernst; Ramsay, Susan; Sheridan, J A; Spence, Beth; Troalen, Lore

'The Late Bronze Age metal hoard' In: Ballin Smith, Beverley, Hunter Blair, Alan and Bailie, Warren, Neolithic timber halls and a Bronze Age settlement with hoard at Carnoustie, Angus

Resource type

Book chapter

Creator (person)

Bailie, Warren

Hunter Blair, Alan

Barbour, Jordan

Cameron, Esther

Cowie, Trevor

Evans, Jane

Harris, Susanna

Hermann, Raphael

Murray, Will

Northover, Peter

O’Connor, Brendan

Pashley, Vanessa

Pernicka, Ernst

Ramsay, Susan

Sheridan, J A

ORCID

Spence, Beth

Troalen, Lore

ORCID

Date published

2025

Abstract

On Friday 9th September 2016, a remarkable discovery was made at the Carnoustie site. During the machine stripping of topsoil c. 0.3m in depth, a number of copper alloy objects were uncovered embedded in the subsoil (Figure 2.64). The machinery not only partly revealed the objects, but the blade of the mechanical bucket had tilted and slightly damaged the blade of a bronze sword of what was later identified as a Ewart Park type, and a bronze spearhead with an embossed gold band around the base of itssocket. It was also apparent to excavators that organic material, including fragments of wood - possible scabbard fragments, was preserved around the objects.