Rhifail
Findspot (19th Century), Spearhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rhifail
Classification Findspot (19th Century), Spearhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6192
Site Number NC74NW 9
NGR NC 729 494
NGR Description NC c. 729 494
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6192
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC74NW 9 c. 729 494.
A finely worked, hollow based flint spearhead, 4 1/8 ins by 1 1/8 ins in maximum breadth and 3/16 ins in maximum thickness, was found about 1875, after heather burning, in the bank of a burn at Rhifail (NC 729 494). Ripple flaked, it is of a type more common in Scandinavia than in Scotland.
It was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] by Rev Angus MacKay in 1908 (Acc No AD 1340).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1908.
