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Artefact Recovery

Date 2016

Event ID 1039809

Category Recording

Type Artefact Recovery

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1039809

NG 32139 33848 Two items of Chalcolithic or Early Bronze Age date were found: one is a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead with serrated edges, lacking one barb. The other is a small undecorated sherd, 8mm thick, with orange surfaces and medium grey core; this could possibly be from a Beaker.

Claimed by the Crown (TT 192/16) and allocated to Museum nan Eilean

Alison Sheridan – National Museums Scotland

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

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