NMS Archaeology Object 160095: X.HR 602 - Basket / base


Description

Summary


Base plate of cetacean bone, possibly for a stake-built basket, from Berneray, Harris


Accession Number


X.HR 602


Other references

Not recorded14.6

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM REFUSE HEAPS. One half of an oval plate of cetacean bone. Anonymous notes: W.S. of Island of Berneray, Harris; (N. Midden).

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)

Berneray, Harris, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1914

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

J. Graham Callander, F.S.A.Scot.

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None

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