Objects
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Bone pin from Middleton, now in Inveraray Castle
‘A bone pin found in Balemeanoch church yard in 1904.’ Display no. 26 in Inveraray Castle collection
See Beveridge (1903) Coll and Tiree pp. 154–5 -
Bone awl or bevelled tool
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.) -
Burnt bone
‘Two fragments of unidentified burnt bone, and one small white stone. From ‘Dwelling at Hogh Bay, Coll’. Mann Collection.’ -
Two bone awls
‘Two bone awls. One is asymmetrical in form. Mann Collection.’ Photo -
Pig tusk
‘One pig tusk, broken at its wider end. Slight damage to the tip. From midden on top of the dun. Mann Collection.’ -
Decorated bone pin from Baca na Putain
Found in a exposed midden at Baca na Putain.
Opinion from Dr Colleen Batey: Locally produced, Early Medieval and not Norse. -
Six worked bones
‘6 items of worked bone found together. 5 pins, 28-40mm long by a maximum of 4mm wide. 3 complete, 2 missing tips. 1 has a v-shaped notch cut across the top of its head. 1 rectangular worked bone with rounded ends. 1 side almost straight, and the other slightly ‘ -
Perforated bone pin
‘One perforated bone pin. The perforation is off-centre at the wider end of the pin. Found at the neck of the adult flexed burial ARCHNN.2687, published as ‘Balevullin 3′ (Armit et al, 2015, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 81). Mann Collection.’ -
Two bone piercers
‘Two worked bone piercers. Mann Collection.’ -
Burnt bone or seashell
‘One very small burnt bone or seashell fragment. Mann Collection.’