Bronze Age burials on Kirkcaldy High Street: revisiting the 1980 legacy excavations

A free public event to celebrate the redisplay of a conserved bronze age food vessel and preliminary results from new post-excavation specialist studies as part of the Kirkcaldy Cists/ Digging Up Kirkcaldy’s Bronze Age Stories (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/currentresearch/kirkcaldycists/) project focused on an unpublished legacy excavation from 1980 with funding from Historic Environment Scotland and in partnership with Fife Cultural Trust. This public day event comprised a short programme of four short archaeological talks delivered by specialists and members of the Digging Up Kirkcaldy’s Bronze Age Stories project team. A display of replica bronze age costumes and a family-friendly creative workshop was delivered explored earlier bronze age ceramic motifs, creativity and sewing techniques.