November
22
/ 2023
A monastery, where the earliest surviving Scots Gaelic text was once noted within the margins of a significant Scottish manuscript called the Book of Deer, disappeared from the pages of history about 1,000 years ago. After over a decade of excavations looking for its whereabouts, archaeologists have now confirmed the discovery of the site where the 10th century annotations were written. The “Extremely Exciting” Remains of the “Book of Deer” Monastery The anticipation has been building up since 2018 when The Scotsman announced that an excavation team working with the Book of Deer Project had unearthed a hearth, charcoal, pottery, post holes and a layer of stone near Old Deer in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At the time, experts used carbon dating
