East Lomond

Great that an old camera can still take photos eh?

I used a trowel that once belonged to a plasterer who served in WW2 (now deceased) to scrape the soil from Scotland's Earliest People's tools at Howburn about fifteen years ago.

biggararchaeology.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/HOWBURN_REPORT2010.pdf

At the same dig I was wearing an old pair of my Dad's brogues (he was still alive at the time) and he had served in India, Burma and Singapore during WW2. Much to the chagrin of the Japanese Army...

At a Young Archaeology Club meet in 2008, I remember the late (and very great) Tam Ward demonstrating casting a BA axehead (using molten lead). Tam knocked the shiny cast axehead out of the mould using a 12" Roman Nail from the Inchtuthil Hoard. Imagine!