Rousay, Sourin Valley
Knife (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rousay, Sourin Valley
Classification Knife (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 2707
Site Number HY43SW 11
NGR HY 42 30
NGR Description HY c. 42 30
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2707
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY43SW 11 42 30.
A flint knife, turned up by the plough in the Sourin Valley Rousay in October 1882, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in January 1883 by George M M'Crie, Corquoy, Rousay. It is a leaf-shaped flake with considerable curvature and is 4 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1883 (Donations).
Note (1982)
Sourin area HY 42 30 HY43SW 11
Flint knife; NMAS.
RCAHMS 1982
(PSAS, 17, 1882-3, 70; OR 612)
