Summary

Small janus flake of blue-grey chert, from the short cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Peeblesshire, Early Bronze Age

Accession Number

X.1995.93.4

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 1030]. Chert flake, cist 2 (= sf 55). Small janus flake of blue-grey chert, damaged at the tip and at one side of the base. The modification is fine trimming or use squilling, inversely along the right-hand edge. Cist 2, under south end slab. May be intrusive - seems too poor quality to be a grave good. 21 x 19 x 4 mm; m 1.6 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