Sordale Hill
Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Core(S) (Stone), Flake(S) (Flint), Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Site Name Sordale Hill
Classification Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Core(S) (Stone), Flake(S) (Flint), Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Canmore ID 8519
Site Number ND16SE 22
NGR ND 160 620
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8519
- Council Highland
- Parish Bower
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND16SE 22 160 620.
Nine flint arrowheads and twelve flint flakes from Hill of Swordale (Sordale Hill: ND 157 619) were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Alexander Murray, Stemster, in 1892; and in 1923, David Murray, Links Farm, Castletown, donated three barbed and forty-two leaf-shaped arrowheads, thirty-seven implements and two cores of flint and chert which were found on Stemster Hill (ND 160 626), Hill of Swordale, and Knockdee (ND 168 607); as well as nineteen stone whorls from Knockdee and Stemster (ND 178 621).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1892; 1923.
No further information from local sources or Wick Museum
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 February 1982.
