Migdale Hoard
{{short description|Bronze age Scottish hoard}}
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The Migdale Hoard is a group of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered by workmen blasting a granite knoll behind Bonar Bridge, Scotland, near what is known as "Tulloch Hill" in May 1900.Anderson, Joseph (1901) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611150915/http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_035/35_266_280.pdf "Notice of a hoard of bronze implements, and ornaments, and buttons of jet found at Migdale, on the estate of Skibo, Sutherland, exhibited to the society by Mr. Andrew Carnegie of Skibo".] Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Retrieved 29 April 2008.[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411367 Description of the hoard on www.megalithic.uk.org] It is named after the nearby Loch Migdale.
Dating from about 2000-1150 BC, the artifacts are in the custody of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. They include a bronze axe head,[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-104-848-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-104-848-C ][http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-727-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-727-C] sets of bronze bangles[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-730-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-730-C][http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-732-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-732-C][http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-734-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-734-C] and anklets,[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-728-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-728-C] and a series of beautifully carved jet and cannel coal buttons[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-752-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-752-C] that may well have adorned a Bronze Age jacket, bronze hair ornaments and fragments of an elaborate bronze headdress.[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/000-100-034-744-C National Museum of Scotland Online ID 000-100-034-744-C]