Red deer bone 125 mm long and 25-35 mm wide with one end shaped into a point, found by Dr Morton Boyd on 27/1/1995 on the bank of the stream at Balephuil embedded in a layer of limpet shells and sand/soil at a depth of around 3 m in the dunes.

Other bevel-ended bone tools found at Balephuil and subsequently 14C dated to the Late Bronze Age were accompanied by pottery sherds, which were unfortunately lost (Saville, A. (1998) ‘Comment (on bone tool from Balephuil Bay, Tiree)’, in Bronk Ramsey, C. et al. ‘Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry date-list 30’, Archaeometry, 42(2), p. 466.)