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Dighty Water
Findspot (Period Unassigned), Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric)
Site Name Dighty Water
Classification Findspot (Period Unassigned), Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Dighty Valley
Canmore ID 33447
Site Number NO43SE 58
NGR NO 474 326
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33447
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
NO43SE 58 474 326
From this site in the lower reaches of the Dighty Water come a series of several hundred flints displaying definite mesolithic characteristics. Of these, the most interesting are pygmy cores of microlithic type and the usual selection of blades of all sizes. Scrapers are represented not only by very steeply dressed examples but by small button-shaped ones also. Rather more unusual are large, heavy tools, adaptable for use as choppers or scrapers. Microlithic tendencies are present only in the form of tiny obliquely trimmed blades. Much of the flint seems to have been burnt.
R Crerar 1963.
