Throwing The Weight Over Bar Highland Games Newburgh Fife Scotland 

Tour Scotland video of throwing the weight over the bar at the Highland Games at Robbie's Park, Scotland Terrace, Newburgh, on ancestry visit to Fife. The weight evolved from its early informal origins to become part of the Scottish Highland games in the late 18th century, where the original version of the event is still contested today. It is believed that, like many Highland games events, the origin of the weight throws is tied to a prohibition by King Edward I of England against Scotsmen possessing weapons during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th and early 14th centuries