The bridge of a Celtic harp thought to be more than 2,300 years old was unearthed recently on the island of Skye, off the western coast of Scotland, according to a report issued by the BBC. The find - a small piece of wood carved with furrows for strings -Â was made in an archaeological dig in Skye's High Pasture Cave. Musical archaeologist Graeme Lawson, who examined the finding, has said that this rare three-dimensional artifact of ancient European stringed instruments changes our understanding of music and poetry in Celtic culture:
It pushes the history of complex music back more than a thousand years, into our darkest pre-history. And not only the history of music but more specifically of song and poetry, because that's what such instruments were very often used for.
Read more: Sky Cave Find Western Europe's 'Earliest String instrument' (BBC)
