 An important Bronze Age or early Iron Age hoard was found at Law Farm near Urquhart in the nineteenth century.Comprising a group of 36 or 37 gold ribbon torcs, the remaining 10 collars are now in the collections of the British Museum, the National Museum of Scotland and the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen.In 1125 David I, King of Scots, founded a priory, as a cell of the Benedictine Dunfermline Abbey, on low ground just to the ENE of the village.