Summary

Bone tool for removing hooks from fish mouths, from Esha Ness, Shetland, 3000 BC - 1100 AD

Accession Number

X.HD 562

Other references

Original description

FROM EARTH-HOUSES, HUT-CIRCLES, &c. Braewick Loch, Eshaness, Shetland. H-shaped bone Implem. 4 5/16" long, ends hollowed out to two sharp points.

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)

Braewick Loch, Esha Ness, Northmaven, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1936

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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