Summary

Elongated pointed blade or knife, broken at one end, from Cunningsburgh, Shetland

Accession Number

X.AC 537

Other references

Original description

IMPLEMENTS OF ROUGHLY CHIPPED STONE OTHER THAN FLINT. Elongated pointed blade of clay-slate, 9 1/8" x 1 1/8", finely edged, but broken at one end. Cunningsburgh, Shetland.

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

Duns Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Cunningsburgh, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1903

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Duns Collection

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Vendor

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