Cuthill Links
Lithic Scatter (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Cuthill Links
Classification Lithic Scatter (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 14659
Site Number NH78NW 25
NGR NH 745 875
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14659
- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH78NW 25 745 875
See also NH78NE 29.
NH78NW 25.01 738 872 Flint Working Site
NH78NW 25.02 743 871 Midden; Stone Hammer; Arrowheads
NH78NW 25.03 7430 8705 Midden
Centred NH 745875. A Late Neolithic-Bronze Age land surface, yielding a heavy quartz flake industry and a little flint, is weathering out for several hundred metres along each side of the road from Dornoch (NH 79 89) to Meikle Ferry (NH 72 87). Flint implements recovered comprise a leaf-shaped arrowhead, a broken, barbed and tanged arrowhead and seven scrapers, while the quartz industry included 150 utilised flakes and cores showing pronounced bulbs of percussion.
F Newall 1980.
This is a wind-blown area in a raised beach. No flint artifacts or flakes were noted. There are occasional patches where quartz fragments are thinly evident but nothing to suggest other than a natural constituent of the land surface.
Visited by OS (J M) 11 June 1981.
