News / Bronze Age Bressay
BRESSAY History Group has distributed an education pack based on the Bronze Age Bressay project to every school in Shetland.
The pack focuses on the Bressay burnt mound – a fascinating Bronze Age structure that was being destroyed by coastal erosion.
In a groundbreaking project in 2008 the history group teamed up with The SCAPE Trust and Archaeology Scotland and moved the structure stone by stone to a new location beside the Bressay Heritage Centre to prevent it being lost to the sea.
Burnt mounds are common across Britain and Ireland and are generally dated to the Bronze Age (c.2000-800BC).
They are mounds of burnt and shattered stones, usually found near a water source. Stones were fired in a hearth and then used to heat water, but their purpose is uncertain.
The education pack was developed by Ester Renwick and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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