Buried treasure of ancient Scots

A STONE Age discovery in the Cairngorms has been exciting researchers. Teams from the universities of Aberdeen and Dublin have found traces of firepits, dwellings and flints dating back around 10,000 years.

It’s rare for evidence from the Middle Stone Age to be uncovered – and what discoveries have been made have been overwhelmingly confined to Lowland areas.

The recently published research shows that hunter-gatherer communities of that era were ‘mobile, moving around and living off the land’. The dig teams are waiting for the Scottish Government to ease Covid restrictions so they can get back to the sites in the summer to try to uncover more.