Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670715

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670715

NJ90NW 216 c. 94 06

A stone ball, flint scrapers, and miscellaneous flints, all from Aberdeen are in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Accession nos: 27.563; 1905.305,311).

(Undated) information in Cambridge Museum Accessions Register.

(Classification cited as Stone Ball; Barbed-and-Tanged: Flint Arrowhead; Leaf-shaped: Flint Arrowhead; Flint Scraper; Tranchet: Flint Arrowhead; Flint Scraper). The accessions register of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology lists a number of artefacts from Aberdeen:

CUMAA: 1905.305, a barbed-and-tanged flint arrowhead.

CUMAA: 1905.311, a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead.

CUMAA: 1923.1085A, three barbed-and-tanged flint arrowheads, one leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, one tranchet flint arrowhead

CUMAA: 1927.563A, a stone ball with bulbous decoration.

CUMAA: 1927.563B, a flint scraper.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 7 May 2002.