Accession No
1952.365
Description
Antler Tine; Arrowhead; Pick; Flake; Implement; Pick; Scraper - TWO INDEX CARDS EXIST, SO EITHER:
1 hollow-based arrowhead (?); 13 scrapers; Flakes and fragments; 1 antler pick.
OR:
Pitchstone scrapers and flakes (25), two flint implements, also the tip of an antler tine broken through a perforation.'
Place
Europe; British Isles; Scotland; Strathclyde; Isle of Arran; Kilpatrick
Period
Neolithic Bronze Age
Source
Sedgwick Museum
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1952.365
Cultural Affliation
Material
Pitchstone; Stone; Flint; Antler
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
This record created by combining two records made from duplicate cards. One has it Neolithic, one Bronze Age.
Collected in August 1923. An abundance of fragments and unworked pieces suggest the site was a factory. Collected by Dr J Johnstone and sent to Sedgwick Museum July 1939. For use of pitchstone in the second millennium in Scotland see Lindsay Scott in P.P.S. XVII Part I, page 42. For publication of the Arran site and of a cave site (the material is now in the Museum but not entered) See Proc Geol: Ass. 1924 Volume 35, page 88; Found: Collected on the surface of a moraine hillock forming part of a potato field at 170 ft OD at the edge of the 100 ft raised bead, one half mile from the shore; Collected by: Johnstone.Dr.J in - 8 1923
Event Date 8/12/1999
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
TWO INDEX CARDS EXIST, SO EITHER:
1 hollow-based arrowhead (?); 13 scrapers; Flakes and fragments; 1 antler pick.
OR:
Pitchstone scrapers and flakes (25), two flint implements, also the tip of an antler tine broken through a perforation.'
Event Date 8/12/1999
Author: maa
FM:41104
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