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The Independent UK
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Michael Segalov

Time capsule from 1800s discovered containing a newspaper and 120-year-old bottle of whiskey

The artifacts found in the time capsule (Highland Folk Museum)

Construction workers in the Scottish Highlands have found what appears to be a time capsule buried in the 1800s.

The metal tin, which is a similar size to a shoe box, was found by workers from construction company Morgan Sindall as they worked Ruthven road bridge, near Kingussie in the Cairngorms.

Inside was a bottle of liquid, currently believed to be whiskey, which appeared to have remained in tact.

Highland-Folk-Museum-3.jpg This bottle is believed to contain whiskey
The artifacts, which also include a paper scroll and a newspaper dated from September 1894, are now in the hands of the Highland Folk Museum, just a few miles down the road.

Robert Ogg, of Morgan Sindall, told the BBC that he finds it "fascinating to think these items have been sitting in the bridge's structure for 121 years."

Highland-Folk-Musem-2.jpg The newspaper found from 1894
"The changes which have occurred since it was placed there are extraordinary. If you think that the bridge was being used by horses back then, it gives you a sense of the time which has passed."

He added: "We have actually been working with Kingussie Primary School to create our own time capsule which we hope will last as long."

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