Menie Links

NJ92SE 6 989 209 to NK 005 243

NJ 989 2O9 to NK 005 243: A large collection of flint artifacts and chippings was made on Menie Links and Foveran Links during August 1961. The collection included two arrow-heads, one leaf-shaped, the other lozenge-shaped, a shaft scraper, an end scraper, and a hammer stone.

R Crerar and A Gallon 1961.

There is no local knowledge of finds on Menie and Foveran Links, which consist mainly of shifting sand dunes. Dr Simpson said that similar finds have been made over a period of many years all along this coast, but he knows nothing of the finds report in 1961.

Visited by OS (NKB) 13 March 1964; Information from Dr W D Simpson, King's College, Old Aberdeen.

There are five flints from Menie Links in the Royal Museum of Scotland (BKA: 10-14).

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 6 January 1997.

The area of this collection extends across portions of Belhelvie and Foveran parishes.

NMRS, MS/712/86.