Recent storms have exposed a woven reed basket
containing worked quartz and animal bones on an island in the Outer
Hebrides. “It’s rare to find well-preserved organic material. It
indicates that this basket must have been kept under water from the day
that it was placed, or lost, there. Perhaps it was in a freshwater loch
until it was covered over by encroaching beach sediment,” Kate MacDonald
of Uist Archaeology told the
Island News and Advertiser.
Specialists will remove the basket, which might date to the Bronze Age
and was discovered by a member of a local archaeology group, in a block
of sediment so that it can be excavated under laboratory conditions. The
quartz and bones will also be examined. To read about another recent
discovery in Scotland, see "
Viking Hoard Unearthed."
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