ARO60: Neolithic timber halls and a Bronze Age settlement with hoard at Carnoustie, Angus

By Beverley Ballin Smith, Alan Hunter Blair and Warren Bailie

With contributions by Torben Ballin, Jordan Barbour, Cathy Batt, Peter Bye Jensen, Esther Cameron, Trevor Cowie, Jane Evans, Samuel Harris, Susanna Harris, Raphael Hermann, Carol Lang, George MacLeod, Will Murray, Peter Northover, Brendan O’Connor, Vanessa Pashley, Ernst Pernicka, Susan Ramsay, Alison Sheridan, Catherine Smith, Beth Spence and Lore Troalen

Illustrations by Jordan Barbour, Jennifer Simonson, Gillian Sneddon and Nieves Ruiz-Nieto

The Carnoustie excavation produced exceptional results. Traces of the longest early Neolithic timber hall in Scotland, the remains of another large hall and also a smaller hall. Later Neolithic activities centred around pit groups. A round house settlement of the later Bronze Age produced a buried, rare late Bronze Age metalwork hoard of a sword, spearhead with gold decoration and a long pin wrapped in textile and sheep-skin.

Key Words: Early Neolithic, timber halls, pit groups, Bronze Age, roundhouses, metalwork hoard

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