Summary

Triangular arrowhead of black flint, barbed and tanged, found in St John's Moss, Shapinsay, Orkney

Accession Number

X.AD 573

Other references

Original description

FLINT ARROW AND SPEAR HEADS. Barbed arrowhead, Caithness. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 12, 1876-78: Arrow-Head of Black Flint, 1 inch in length, triangular, with barbs and stem, finely proportioned and of delicate workmanship, found in the middle of St John's Moss, in the island of Shapinsay, Orkney.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

St John's Moss, Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1877

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Colonel Balfour, F.S.A.Scot. [Balfour and Trenaby]

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None