Unearthing the Peebles Hoard: A unique collection from Bronze Age Scotland

In June 2020, as restrictions associated with the first COVID-19 lockdown began to ease, Mariusz Ste˛pien´ contacted the Treasure Trove Unit. He had been metal-detecting in a field near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, and had found a good signal. After investigating further, he recovered some strange bronze disc-shaped objects, decorated with concentric circles, as well as other fragments of bronze and wood – and, crucially, he noted that there was more still in the ground that he had resisted digging. This restraint proved more valuable than we could have imagined – and those strange objects were our first glimpse of what has become known as the Peebles Hoard. A team from the Tre