Summary

Retouched tool of good quality grey flint, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.3

Other references

Original description

Finds from excavations at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire. Type of site: Short cist cemetery. Date: Early Bronze Age. Finds from the Early Bronze Age cemetery (area A). [EQ 1029]. Flint retouched tool, cist 2 (= sf 52). Splintered piece of good quality grey flint. There are two aspects to its modification. One area of the edge has been retouched, while both terminals have been modified by scalar removals, probably as a result of bipolar retouch on an anvil. It is not clear which aspect of modification predates the other, but since the artefact itself is produced by bipolar anvil reduction, it is most likely that the edge retouch post-dates the splintering. It is difficult to offer any precise parallels and it is not in itself diagnostic in terms of date or function. Indeed, it is not entirely certain that it is an implement rather than being a core residual. The quality and colouring of the flint bring to mind the chisel and oblique arrowheads from Scotland, implements which may well in some instances have been manufactured on broad flakes struck from bipolar cores. Cist 2, trapped under east side slab. 43 x 25 x 9 mm; m 9 g.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1995

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

Image

None