Object: Agate toolsDate: NeolithicDescription: Three agate scrapers. End scraper 45mm x 25mm tapering to a point. Side scraper 40mm x25 mm. Side scraper 30mm x 20mm.Origin: As flint does not occur naturally on Bute, other materials were sourced to make...
Object: Saddle QuernDate: NeolithicDescription: A saddle quern with rubbing stone. The base of schistose grit is broken and probably half itsoriginal length, now 360mm x 270mm. The upper stone is oval porphyritic basalt with one face smooth,dimensions 240mm x 165mm x...
Object: Sharpening StoneDate: NeolithicDescription: A sharpening stone made from weathered basalt. Four sided, with each side showing signsof use. Length 60mm tapering to 40 mmOrigin: In the late 19th century and early 20th century, a gravel pit at Townhead was being...
Object: Flint ScraperDate: NeolithicDescription: Flint scraper from the Neolithic burial cairn at Glecknabae. 35mm long by 35wide narrowingto 15mm.Origin: In 1903 Professor Thomas H Bryce undertook explorations of all the known tumuli on the islandof Bute. One of the...
Object: Arrowhead Date: Neolithic Description: A very finely-made flint arrowhead measuring 45mm x 22mm. It was found during excavations at a Neolithic Burial Cairn at Hilton Farm. Origin: Between 1973 and 1976, Dorothy Marshall excavated the burial site at Hilton....
Object: Food Vessel Date : Neolithic Description: Food vessel of fairly hard gritty ware, reddish colour in places, with shiny black slip. Carinated with rim out-turned. Decorated with incised lines over the rim and above the carination. Interior dimeter is 15.5 cm....
Object: Spacer-Plate Necklace Date: Bronze Age Description: Spacer-plate necklace made from Whitby jet with the addition of some lignite beads. It was found in one of 3 stone cists on the island of Inchmarnock. It had been buried with a young woman, who was given the...
Object: Food Vessel Date : Neolithic Description: Food vessel made of a fairly hard grey fabric. It has a smoothed interior and six lugs which are functional for joining the base to the wall of the pot. The rim is bevelled and there are incised lines all over the pot...