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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653802
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653802
ND16SE 22 160 620.
Nine flint arrowheads and twelve flint flakes from Hill of Swordale (Sordale Hill: ND 157 619) were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Alexander Murray, Stemster, in 1892; and in 1923, David Murray, Links Farm, Castletown, donated three barbed and forty-two leaf-shaped arrowheads, thirty-seven implements and two cores of flint and chert which were found on Stemster Hill (ND 160 626), Hill of Swordale, and Knockdee (ND 168 607); as well as nineteen stone whorls from Knockdee and Stemster (ND 178 621).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1892; 1923.
No further information from local sources or Wick Museum
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 February 1982.
