Summary

Triangular block of cetacean bone, from Baleshare, North Uist, Inverness-shire

Accession Number

X.HR 624

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM REFUSE-HEAPS, &c. From a kitchen midden at Baleshere, North Uist:- Large triangular block of cetacean bone, 6 1/2" thick, having two deep circular depressions on the upper surface, probably produced by the action of a pivot.

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)

Baleshare, 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