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Caithness Fieldwalking Project
Leaf Arrowhead(S)
Site Name Caithness Fieldwalking Project
Classification Leaf Arrowhead(S)
Canmore ID 269023
Site Number ND35SE 360
NGR ND 3815 5420
NGR Description Centred on ND 3815 5420
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269023
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND35SE 360 centred on 3815 5420
ND 375 542 (area) Eight fields were walked on Noss Head, including one adjacent to Girnigoe and Sinclair Castles, where a single piece of probable Norse pottery was recovered. Only one discrete cluster of material was found in the area (centre ND 3815 5420), which contained two leaf-shaped arrowheads and blade and flake debitage. Isolated finds, including a leaf-shaped arrowhead, scrapers and two microliths, were also recovered, although the quantity of 'background noise' was low. The farmer, Mr A Morgan, has subsequently recovered a single leaf-shaped arrowhead and a bifacial knife from one of the fields surveyed.
Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.
Sponsors: HS, University of Cardiff.
A Pannett and A Baines 2003
