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Archaeologists working against the tide to excavate - Your future?

A group of archaeologists are working against the tide to excavate a Pictish copper smith’s workshop located on an Iron Age settlement on the Island of Rousay.

The site located on the Orkney Islands has revealed a sooty imprint of what is believed to be the smith’s hands and knees, which could potentially be 1500 years old.

Dr Julie Bond, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford added: “This is an extremely exciting find and we are doing all we can to gather as much information on the site before it is destroyed by the sea. A hand print is so personal and individual that you can almost feel the presence of the copper smith and imagine what it must have been like working in there all those years ago.”

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