Tag: iron age

• The Ballachulish Figure, an Iron Age Sculpture

  

  The mysterious Ballachulish figure is a roughly life-sized figure of a girl or goddess, carved from a single piece of alder, with pebbles for eyes. It was found in 1880, in Ballachulish, in Inverness-shire, Scotland and dates to the Iron Age, around 600 BC. The wooden sculpture was found in a bog overlooking the entrance to a…

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  18/03/2018

  Archaeology, Museums & Galleries

  iron age, Museum, Photography, scotland, sculpture