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<< Our Photo Pages >> Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Angus

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 20 December 2018  Page Views: 3479

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Country: Scotland County: Angus Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Carnoustie
Map Ref: NO5553135246
Latitude: 56.507163N  Longitude: 2.724092W
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Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : General view of the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Angus

On 17 February 2017, the GUARD Archaeology team completed their excavation of the archaeological remains at Balmachie Road, Carnoustie. Altogether they had recorded the remains of up to 12 sub-circular houses that probably date to the Bronze Age along with the remains of two rectilinear halls that likely date to the Neolithic period. The Neolithic features are significant in themselves, and include the largest Neolithic Hall ever found in Scotland. The hoard was buried in a pit close to a roundhouse that cut through the large Neolithic hall.

guard-archaeology.co.uk/carnoustieHoard/

Update March 2026:
There is a newly published GUARD excavation report (ARO60) available, about the largest early Neolithic timber hall ever found in Scotland (35m x 9m), a companion hall, and a Bronze Age hoard including a sword in a wooden scabbard, a gold-banded spearhead, and a swan's neck pin. The hoard will be displayed at the National Museum of Scotland in 2026 as part of "Scotland's First Warriors" exhibition. See Archaeology Reports Online, "ARO60: Neolithic timber halls and a Bronze Age settlement with hoard at Carnoustie, Angus, 2025".

For details of the exhibition, scheduled to take place between Saturday 27 June 2026 – Monday 17 May 2027 at the National Museum of Scotland, click on Scotland's First Warriors.
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Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : A stone with a small hole. Seems a bit small for a cup-mark. (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : End wall slot for a Neolithic longhouse. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : The pit that contained the hoard. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : A line of post holes forming one side of the large Neolithic longhouse. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard
Carnoustie Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and Hoard submitted by SandyG : One of the many round houses uncovered by the excavation.

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Video Talk: Neolithic Halls, Roundhouses and a Late Bronze Age Hoard at Carnoustie by Andy B on Wednesday, 21 August 2019
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Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age Roundhouses and a Late Bronze Age Hoard at Carnoustie
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Analysis of a Neolithic stone axe by Andy B on Thursday, 20 December 2018
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Buried within one of a row of pits within the large Neolithic hall at Carnoustie was a complete axehead in pristine condition, quite possibly never used. Measuring 170 mm long and 63.5 mm wide, this was analysed by Alison Sheridan from National Museums Scotland. With one face more markedly convex than the other (the blade lies closer to the less convex face), in theory this could have been hafted as an adze-head instead of an axehead, although it lacks the marked longitudinal asymmetry of adze-heads.

http://guard-archaeology.co.uk/carnoustieHoard/?p=205
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Radiocarbon dating the larger Neolithic Hall by Andy B on Thursday, 20 December 2018
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So far, we have received three radiocarbon dates from the larger Neolithic hall (Structure 8) at Carnoustie. Three of the post-holes at the north-eastern gable end of the hall have yielded calibrated (2 sigma) dates from single entity samples (willow, alder and hazel) of 3694-3530 BC, 3929-3703 BC and 3893-3653 BC. Which confirms our assumption that this was an Early Neolithic structure of the early fourth millennium BC.

Those dates are really close to the radiocarbon dates recovered from other Neolithic halls in Scotland such as Balbridie in Aberdeenshire and Doon Hill in East Lothian. So it’ll be interesting to see whether the smaller building (Structure 13) at Carnoustie, which lies on different alignment south of the larger hall, yields a different range of radiocarbon dates.

http://guard-archaeology.co.uk/carnoustieHoard/?p=49
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    Re: Radiocarbon dating the larger Neolithic Hall by Andy B on Thursday, 20 December 2018
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    The first batch of radiocarbon dates have come back with some interesting results. First of all a couple of occupation layers within Structure 5 (a roundhouse just to the south of the pit containing the Late Bronze Age hoard) have yielded calibrated radiocarbon dates of 1118-931 BC and 1082-905 BC. These dates are very close if not pretty much identical to the calibrated radiocarbon date of 1118-924 BC obtained from the wooden scabbard of the Carnoustie sword. So this confirms that the hoard was buried within a pit that lay within a contemporary Late Bronze Age settlement.

    http://guard-archaeology.co.uk/carnoustieHoard/?p=242
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