Summary

Wooden scoop, probably of larch, from Cheese Bay, Lochmaddy, North Uist, 190 BC - 100 AD

Accession Number

X.IP 3

Other references

Original description

Organic / Wood / Picea sp or Larix sp, most probably the latter (T Skinner): Wooden scoop, with proportionately small handle, in quite good condition despite drying without treatment; part of the handle may have flaked off. Wood identified by T Skinner, C & AR Dept, as Picea sp or Larix sp, most probably the latter. Close-Brooks, J 1984. Found during peat cutting near the vendor's croft 1974/5, c 1.37m deep in a peat bank.

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)

Lochmaddy, North Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1978

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Vendor

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