The coins may have been hidden by a victim of the Glencoe Massacre of 1692, that saw nearly 40 people slaughtered.
Coins linked to an infamous massacre that saw nearly 40 people slaughtered have been discovered under a grand fireplace in Scotland.The hoard of coins was found in a small pot at a house that used to belong to Alasdair Ruadh 'MacIain' MacDonald of Glencoe, chief of the MacDonald clan from 1646 to 1692, a press release from the University of Glasgow reported.
'What's really exciting is that these coins are no later than the 1680s: so were they buried in a rush as the Massacre started first thing in the morning of the 13th February 1692? We know some of the survivors ran through the blizzard and escaped up the side glens, including this one: were these coins witnesses to this dramatic story? It's a real privilege, as archaeologists, to hold in our hands these objects that were so much part of people's lives in the past.
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