Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old cremated remains of at least eight people who were buried in five urns in Scotland. While it's unknown how they died, it was likely during some sort of catastrophic event.
The finding is unusual because, although many Bronze Age burial spots in Scotland were reused over the years, the newfound cremations "tell a different story," the researchers wrote in a new study, published recently in the journal Archaeology Reports Online. In this case, the urns were "tightly arranged, giving the impression of being buried collectively, and then remaining undisturbed except for modern plough damage," the team wrote.
