Hunterian Museum Object 104823: GLAHM:B.1914.553 - ARROW-HEAD, Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney
Description
- Description
- two leaf-shaped flint arrow-heads. Conventionally associated with the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age, these two flint arrowheads are unusual finds to have been recovered on the Brough of Birsay, which is conventionally understood to have been occupied between the 6th and 12th Centuries AD. Another site nearby may therefore be indicated.
- Object Number
- GLAHM:B.1914.553
- Object Name/Type(s)
- arrow-head
- Material
- flint
Other Identifier(s)
- Cursiter Collection Number
- 178
Dimensions
- Height
- None recorded.
- Width
- None recorded.
Provenance & Acquisition
- Collection / Collected By
- Cursiter, Mr James Walls
- Collection Method
- None recorded.
- Locality
- Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland
- Acquisition
- Mr Andrew Henderson Bishop (Donor) 1914
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