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A Construction Crew Was Building a Golf Course—and Stumbled Upon a 2,000-Year-Old Wheel

created: April 25, 2025, 6 p.m. | updated: May 2, 2025, 5:51 p.m.

Development of a new golf course in the Scottish Highlands led to the discovery of an ancient cremation pit. Inside the circular pit, archaeologists discovered an Iron Age chariot wheel—believed to be the first found in the Highlands near Inverness. Cabot Highlands is sculpting a 123-acre site in the pristine Scottish Highlands near Inverness into a championship-caliber golf course. Now there’s a chariot wheel. We were a bit bemused.”This is the first case of a chariot wheel discovered in the Highlands, Young said, and one of only a handful in all of Scotland.

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