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Close-up of ancient Iron Age bone tools, carefully whittled from human skeletal remains, discovered at a remote Scottish burial site.
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Archaeologists Find Iron Age Skeleton Bones Whittled Into Tools

In a remote Scottish burial site, archaeologists unearthed the 2,000-year-old remains of a woman whose long bones had been snapped and whittled into sharp tools after her death.

David Grossman·June 15, 2026