East Morriston

A number of flint artefacts are recorded as having been found on the lands of East Morriston farm. These are held in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick.

No details of these artefacts are given, but it is understood that some are microliths, miniature blades usually fashioned from flint. It is thought that these would have formed part of a larger, composite object. For instance, a row of small flint blades could have been set into an antler or bone handle and used as a knife blade.

Microliths are characteristic of the Mesolithic period, which followed the last Ice Age and lasted for four thousand years or more.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NT64SW 20 60 41 and 60 42

Flints from East Morriston are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession No: BMA 2165-6). NMAS Mss Accessions list.

NT 610 421, 500ft OD. Microliths from East Morriston are listed.

H Mulholland 1970.

'Nine flints, one non flint, six retouched' from East Morriston are listed among chipped stone artefacts in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick (HAKMG 2907-2916).

Museum Catalogue (typescript, compiled 1981).

The various flints recorded from East Morriston are unlikely to have been found at the quoted location (NT 610 421), which is in a field of unimproved rig-and-furrow cultivation. It is probable that the quoted NGR was simply a convenient indicator of the location of East Morriston used by Mulholland in her publication.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS/RM) 30 September 1993.

H Mulholland 1970.