Archaeology of the East Lomond Hillfort

17th May to 4th June 2017

This archaeological dig is building upon a trial excavation undertaken in 2014 as part of the Living Lomonds Landscape Partnership programme. The excavation produced previously unknown and unrecorded evidence of human activity around the summit of East Lomond in Fife. The results of the 2014 exercise showed that the hillfort appears to have been refortified during the Pictish period and the main trench produced the remains of a kiln for small scale metal working, and a horse’s bridle bit – both indicators of high status occupation of the hillfort.

• What have we been up to?

• Read our Week one blog on what’s been happening on the Hill.

• Read our Week two blog on what’s been happening on the Hill.

• We welcomed secondary school groups to the dig with a dedicated schools trench. Bell Baxter High School was one of these schools, here’s their feedback. 

• Background reading on from the Excavation 2014

• Images from this year’s dig