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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674332

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674332

NM66NW 3 c. 645 676

A small number of Late Larnian and Obanian-type mesolithic artifacts in flint and quartz have been found under peat below Bruach na Maorach (the Shell-fish Bank - name: NM 643 675). They were donated to the NMAS in 1960 by the late W A Munro.

A D Lacaille 1954; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1963.

No further information.

Visited by OS (RL), 28 May 1970.

NM 645 676. Mesolithic Flints, etc, Kentra Bay: Twenty-nine flakes and chips, cores, 'thumbnail' scraper, knife and one core and one flake of Rhum bloodstone. Heavily patinated (Thornber 1974).

Donated to the NMAS (PSAS 1978).

I Thornber 1974; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1978.

The artifacts from Kentra Bay cannot be closely dated within the Mesolithic period.

RCAHMS 1980.

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