CHANNERWICK—Recent storms in Scotland’s Shetland Islands uncovered an Iron Age building and a skeleton thought to be 2,000 years old. Archaeologists and police officers were able to examine the site and take a sample from the bones for radiocarbon dating before several tons of rock fell from a nearby bank and covered the area. “Coastal erosion is an ever present feature of archaeology in Shetland,” said Val Turner, county archaeologist.
Coastal Erosion Reveals Then Hides Iron Age Site in Scotland
News January 15, 2013
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