Bronze Age Burial

Tonight was the opening event for the new exhibition "Cradle of Scotland" at the Hunterian.

Cradle of Scotland presents the results of 10 years work by the University of Glasgow’s Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot Project, known as SERF.

Led by a team of archaeologists from the University, the project explores the rich archaeological landscapes of Forteviot in Strathearn, Perthshire. No place has a better claim to be the cradle of Scotland than Forteviot, where a Pictish royal palace stood alongside a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex.

Archaeology reveals the important story of Forteviot over three millennia using cropmarks, sculptures, buried structures and artefacts.

The exhibition explores the evolution of society from the loosely connected communities of early farmers in prehistory to the centralised kingdom of Alba (Gaelic for ‘Scotland’).

Iron Age hillforts, the clash between the Romans and Caledonians and the development of the Pictish kingdom complete this biography of a sacred landscape.

This burial display depicts a floral tribute and the presence of two bronze blades.