East Lothian's Broxmouth fort reveals edge of steel
Archaeologists have identified the earliest use of steel in the British Isles from a site in East Lothian. They now believe artifacts recovered from the site of the Broxmouth Iron Age hill fort were made from high-carbon steel. Read more
Archaeologists have published the full analysis of a rescue dig carried out at an East Lothian hill fort in the 1970s. Broxmouth, east of Edinburgh, was excavated shortly before the site was destroyed by a cement works. The community lasted for almost 1,000 years before the area was abandoned when the Romans left.