About 1,700 years ago, Iron Age cooks served a massive, meaty feast along the Scottish coast of the North Sea, offering guests a spectacular view as they chowed down on sheep, pig and otter, and even received party favors — metal rings and brooches to wear, archaeologists report.
Researchers made the discovery when they found the aftermath of the feast — a trash heap filled with about 11,000 fragments of animal bone. They also uncovered metalwork supplies from the same time period.
“It’s so closely contemporary, it looks like the remains of the animal bones are part of a feast that celebrates this great metalworking episode,” Martin Carruthers, the site’s excavation director and a lecturer in archaeology at Orkney College, University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, told Live Science. Read more.
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