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Pounder
‘One double-ended pounder of light grey stone. Made on a beach cobble. Elongated. Broken at each end. Mann Collection.’ -
Sherd (rim)
‘One rim potsherd of brown fabric. Small, infrequent stone inclusions. Flat rim decorated with a series of three parallel, impressed elongated marks. The middle line is horizontal, and the two outer lines are angled. Exterior decorated with large, elongated, roughly horizontal impressed marks. Possibly from a Food Vessel. Mann Collection.’ -
Sherd (rim and body)
‘One rim and body potsherd. Simple rim. Brown to orange-brown fabric, with occasional small stone inclusions. Brown, wiped interior. Applied horizontal cordon on the exterior. Exterior sooted at top; orange-brown in colour below the cordon. Mann Collection.
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Sherd (rim and body)
‘One rim and body potsherd from a very well-made globular-shaped vessel. Brown and red-brown fabric with infrequent, small to medium-sized stone inclusions. Simple rim. Smoothed interior and exterior. Horizontal indented line around 8mm thick running parallel to, and around 25-30mm down from, the rim. Sooting at rim on exterior and interior. Mann Collection.’ -
Large sherd
‘One large body potsherd. Brown interior and red-brown exterior. Frequent small to medium-sized stone inclusions. Wiped interior. Mann Collection.’ -
Flint knife
‘One knife of white flint. Heavily patinated. Sub-triangular on plan. Mann Collection.’ -
Skeleton child
‘Upper part of skeleton of child between 4-7 years old, lying on their back. The skeleton is set on plaster with newspaper packed underneath it, within a wooden box, set into a modern wooden crate. Remains surrounded by sand, accompanied by at least two stone artefacts, one of which has a date in July 1906 on it. The bones are varnished; some are loose. Published as ‘Balevullin 4′ (Armit et al, 2015, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 81). Mann Collection.’ -
Human skull
‘One human skull. Three pieces of bone have been glued into place. Previously noted as being ‘probably female.’ Possibly from the burial published as ‘Balevullin 2′ (Armit et al, 2015, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 81). Mann Collection.’ -
156 worked flints
‘161 items: 156 worked flints, 3 stone fragments, and 2 limpet shell fragments. Worked stone: 101 flakes, 14 blades, 6 piercers, 5 utilised flakes, 5 knives, 5 cores, 5 split pebbles, 4 utilised blades, 4 leaf-shaped points, 3 borers, 2 side scrapers, 1 knife/piercer,’Island: TireeTownship: Balevullin -
16 worked flints
’16 worked flints: 6 flakes, 2 blades, 2 knives, 2 utilised flakes, 1 hollow scraper, 1 saw, 1 possible borer, and 1 microlith. Mann Collection.’