Objects
(146)
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Flint knife
‘One knife of white flint. Heavily patinated. Sub-triangular on plan. Mann Collection.’ -
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.’ -
94 worked flints
’96 items: 94 of worked flint, 1 stone fragment, and 1 seashell fragment. Worked flint: 54 flakes, 12 blades, 8 cores, 4 chips, 4 knives, 2 utilised blades, 2 piercers, 2 arrowheads (1 leaf-shaped and 1 rhomboidal), 1 utilised flake, 1 borer, 1 tanged point, 1 notched piece, 1 burin, and 1 split pebble. Mann Collection.’ -
Flake
‘One small white flint flake. Straight on one side and convex on the other. Found in close association with the bones of the right hand of the child in the burial ARCHNN.2686, published as ‘Balavullin 4′ (Armit et al, 2015, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 81). Mann Collection.’ -
Core
‘One platform core of grey and white flint. Cortex covers one face. Triangular on plan. One from a group of 197 items from Ballavullin (ARCHNN.1704). Mann Collection’ -
Bladelet (utilised)
One utilised white flint bladelet from ARCHNN.233, a box containing sand and small pieces of worked flint. Mann Collection. -
Worked flints from Port Snoig
Large chert (flint) pebble, one smaller chert pebble and three worked chert fragments found by chance at Port Snoig, West Hynish (NL 96813 38707) on a steep eroding `cow path` up from a small sheltered beach of pebbles, at about 8m above MHWM. All are labelled and include: a knapped piece of core, a thumb scraper, a backed blade, and map and detailed notes by the finder. -
Worked flint found in Scarinish
Large, round flint scraper found by Amanda Ransom at Keeper’s Cottage in Scarinish (NM 03893 44266) in 2018: ‘The flint was on the lawn of Keeper Cottage, in Scaranish. If you stand on the driveway facing the house, about 1m back from the sitting room window (the window on the right) and then walk straight onto the lawn at the right hand side of the house, it was about 1.5 meters out from the driveway, just along from where there is a wooden rail for hanging wetsuits, it was just poking up out of the mud. ‘
Dated by Professor Steve Mithen (from a photograph) as Late Neolithic or Bronze Age. -
Worked flint and burnt bone
‘One hundred and sixty-eight worked stone items of flint and quartz, and one burnt animal bone fragment. The worked stone items comprise: ninety-nine flakes, twenty-five scrapers, sixteen utilised flakes, seven blades, six borers, four knives, four cores, three chips, one burin, one retouched flake, one notched flake, and one split pebble. Mann Collection.’ -
Collection of worked flints
‘Group of forty-eight worked flints: thirty-three scrapers (sixteen end, thirteen side, two disc, one side-and-end, and one hollow); nine knives; three worked flakes (two notched and one retouched); one core; one blade; and one borer. Mann Collection.’