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Here's an exquisite flint arrowhead found at #EastLomondHillfort
#HillfortsWednesday
Drop/leaf-shaped reddish-orange flint Early Neolithic c.4000-3500 BC, found 5500-6000 years later thanks to volunteer digger @BCarchrie!

Here's an exquisite flint arrowhead found at #EastLomondHillfort

Drop/leaf-shaped reddish-orange flint Early Neolithic c.4000-3500 BC, found 5500-6000 years later thanks to volunteer digger @BCarchrie!

You'll all be used to the idea of archaeology digs at #EastLomondHillfort being a successful community archaeology project in Scotland. Right?
High schools across #Fife have been involved, 100s of volunteers and students trained, even a nice spot on #DiggingForBritain... 2/4
High schools across #Fife have been involved, 100s of volunteers and students trained, even a nice spot on #DiggingForBritain... 2/4
3/4 Read more about our project at East Lomond with @falklandestate http://www.centreforstewardship.org.uk/archaeology/
This is the first major dig at a hillfort in #Fife in over 50 years since Clatchard Craig in 1960! Other recent projects by our fiends @wemyss_caves mean exciting times for Pictish Fife
This is the first major dig at a hillfort in #Fife in over 50 years since Clatchard Craig in 1960! Other recent projects by our fiends @wemyss_caves mean exciting times for Pictish Fife

4/4 Studying, writing and digging early medieval Scotland since the 1990s, I was first aware of #EastLomondHillfort in work of the late Prof Leslie Alcock
For community heritage projects, in terms of education and historic environment, best outcomes are based on strong research.
For community heritage projects, in terms of education and historic environment, best outcomes are based on strong research.