• Possible Ancient Dagger Found in 17th-Century House in Scotland

    BOTHWELL, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that traces of four buildings dated from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries were uncovered during roadwork in southern Scotland. The buildings were part of a village that was turned into parkland in the eighteenth century by the Duke of Hamilton. In the foundation level of one of the buildings, researchers found a spindle whorl, a whetstone, two seventeenth-century coins, and an iron dagger. The dagger, which may have been crafted in the Iro

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