A Scottish citizen from the city of Stirling, while digging a pond in his garden to build a swimming pool, found the bones of a large dolphin, about 8,000 years old.
“This may be the first discovery in Scotland in over a century,” said Stirling archaeologist Murray Cook, reports Al-Rai daily.
These bones, which were found, belonged to a bottlenose dolphin up to three meters long. In the mud layer at a depth of 80 cm, in addition to the bones of the dolphin, the citizen found a broken working tool made of deer antler, which was used to cut meat. It seems that the dolphin was among the food of the local population.
The dolphin skull was delivered to the National Museum in Scotland for detailed study and to determine the exact age of the dolphin using the radioactive carbon method. The remaining parts of the skeleton remained in the ground and will be excavated later.
It is reported that in 1897 the bones of a whale were found on the outskirts of Stirling, and this is the first time that the bones of an old dolphin have been found in the region.
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