Archaeologists baffled by mysterious ancient ‘island’ at bottom of Scottish loch

The discovery of a wooden man-made “island” in Scotland dating to the Bronze Age is stumping UK archaeologists, who say it could be as old as Stonehenge, according to a new report.

The ancient structure found buried in Loch Bhogastail on the isle of Lewis is a type of structure known as a crannog and was built thousands of years ago, although scientists have no clue as to how or exactly why such platforms were built in the first place, the BBC said.

“When we actually started excavating is when we realized that it was actually this coherent, quite large timber structure that was under what you would see as the stone island today,” University of Southampton archaeologist Stephanie Blankshein told the outlet.

“While we still don’t know exactly why