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Shapinsay, St. John's Moss
Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Shapinsay, St. John's Moss
Classification Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 3073
Site Number HY51NW 17
NGR HY
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3073
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Shapinsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY51NW 17 unlocated
A barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of black flint, 1" long, found in the middle of St John's Moss, Shapinsay, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Col. Balfour of Balfour in 1877. (AD 573)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1878.
St John's Moss [is] no longer known.
Visited by OS (AA), 2 October 1972.
A barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of black flint (Royal Museum of Scotland, accession no. AD 573) was found 'in the middle of St John's Moss', a name otherwise unrecorded.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1878; NMAS Catalogue 1892; RCAHMS 1987.
