A traveller's end? - an associated group of Early Historic artefacts from Carronbridge, Dumfries & Galloway

During the preliminary stages of excavations at Carronbridge, in an area of ploughsoil immediately overlying an Iron Age penannular enclosure, an unexpected discovery was made: fragments of a penannular brooch and of a large iron object, later recognized as part of a sword blade. During subsequent laboratory examinations, part of a small sickle blade was recognised and reconstructed from among the corroded iron fragments recovered with the sword. Proposes a date of deposition in 9C AD or 10C AD. Argues that the discovery of this assemblage of artefacts is entirely coincidental to the existence of the Roman and Iron Age site at the same location. (Original abstract - amended)