Boreray
Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Polisher (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Boreray
Classification Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned), Polisher (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 10391
Site Number NF88SE 13
NGR NF 85 81
NGR Description Centred on NF 85 81
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10391
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF88SE 13 centred 85 81.
A large collection of antiquities from the Western Isles formed by the late H H Mackenzie, factor of the North Uist estates between about 1880 and 1934 was donated to the Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS, formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]) in 1972. A small axe of Antrim porcellanite (AF 1055), and a carefully shaped and bevelled oval stone (GT 998), together in a box, would seem to be the 'small stone axe' and 'polishing stone' listed by Mr Mackenzie as found on the island of Boreray.
J Close-Brooks and S Maxwell 1975.
