3,000-year-old broken weapons found in Scotland loch reveal ancient ritual offerings to gods.The Stories Behind Seven of the Worst Massacres in Ancient History. (©Gareth Beale/ University of Glasgow )Ī report in The Guardian says that alongside the silver and bronze coins dating from the 1500s to 1680s, the team of researchers found “ European pottery, pottery from England, Germany and the Netherlands, a musket and fowling shot, and the flint and gunpowder from a rifle.”Īmong the currency were coins from the reigns of “ Elizabeth I, James VI and I, Charles I, the Cromwellian Commonwealth, and Charles II – as well as France and the Spanish Netherlands and the Papal States was also found.”ĭr Michael Given, the co-director of the University of Glasgow’s archaeological project in Glencoe, speculates that whoever hid the coins, was killed during the massacre, and failed to return for them. Lucy Ankers, the university scholar who unearthed the Glencoe hoard, studying the coins in a laboratory at the University of Glasgow. Ankers told The Guardian “I don’t think I will ever beat the feeling of seeing the coins peeking out of the dirt in the pot.” She identified the stash in what was at one time a large stone fireplace within Maclain of Glencoe’s summerhouse. The collection of coins was found by student archaeologist, Lucy Ankers, during a University of Glasgow dig in August. Now, according to a report in BBC, “a hoard of 36 coins,” linked with this horrific event has been discovered underneath a fireplace that once belonged to the Macdonald Clan chief. The senseless slaughter shocked the nation, igniting a profound and lasting rage. Among the victims were clan chief Maclain, and his wife. In a brutal and treacherous act, they mercilessly murdered around 80 members of the MacDonald clan, violating the sacred Scottish hospitality code. This loyalty to the Catholic monarchs, in contrast to the Protestant ascendancy, made them a prime target.įollowing the first Jacobite rising, in an attempt to reinstate King James, government forces deceitfully posed as guests in Glencoe. The MacDonald clan had previously aided the 1689 effort to restore the Catholic James II of England, Ireland, and VII of Scotland to the throne. The somber events of this dark chapter in Scottish history unfolded on the fateful morning of 13 February 1692, in Glencoe. In the heartlands of Scotland's rugged west coast, an archaeology student unearthed a trove of 17th-century artifacts, including an "international coin hoard." Believed to have been hidden after the Glencoe massacre, the coins illustrate one of the most haunting chapters in the nation's history.
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