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Heights of Brae Hoard

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Discovery

In the 1960s, several gold objects were ploughed up in a field at the Heights of Brae, near Dingwall, Highland. Two of these were reported to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1979 and the area was excavated by D.V. Clarke and M.M.B. Kemp. At least two objects are known to have been lost prior to excavation, as they were considered to be horse brasses and were subsequently discard, though nine objects still survive. Excavation revealed no obvious feature from which the hoard was recovered and the excavators concluded that the objects probably originally comprised a hoard of at least eleven objects that was scattered by the plough. The nine surviving objects were reported to the Treasure Trove Unit in Scotland and acquired by the National Museum of Scotland.

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