Experts said the chariot is the first of its kind to be discovered in Scotland and suggests that someone of importance may have been buried nearby. Edinburgh City Council ordered an archaeological excavation to be carried out on the Newbridge site due to its proximity to Huly Hill, a Bronze Age burial cairn surrounded by three standing stones. A chariot like this would be the Ferrari of the Iron Age, and suggests someone important was buried there. The best parallels are in France and Belgium, showing the wide-ranging contacts at the time. This further confirms the importance of the Huly Hill site in the West of Edinburgh as a religious centre for the prehistoric people of Edinburgh.
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