Digging Up the Past: A Bronze Dagger Lodged in a Skull

The year was 1817, and among the many events shaping the Highlands—from food riots and reform movements to soup kitchens and seismic tremors—came a strange and chilling archaeological discovery near Dingwall. It wasn’t a buried hoard of coins or an ancient standing stone, but something far more personal and unsettling: a human skeleton in a stone coffin, with a bronze dagger embedded in the skull.

This accidental unearthing told a silent but haunting story—one that invites us to question the violence, ritual, and mystery of prehistoric Scotland.