Summary

Bone object resembling tip of a weaving sword, from Shetland, Scotland

Accession Number

X.2014.362

Other references

Original description

Unidentified ?bone object resembling tip of a bone weaving sword, no locality, Shetland. Unidentified ?bone object resembling tip of a bone weaving sword; smooth dark brown (?peat stained); no locality, Shetland [labelled ‘Shetland / R Glen /1907’ but the reading of the name is uncertain. Trevor Cowie notes, 28 October 2014: this previously unregistered object was allocated an accession no during the Leith Cruiser Store decant October 2014. Formerly with objects from, and therefore presumed to have formed part of, a collection of Shetland artefacts donated by R C Haldane in 1911, much of which came from the locality of Lochend, North Roe, Northmavine. Site: Shetland, Scotland, EUROPE.

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)

Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1911

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Haldane, R.C., 1905 - 1911 (fl.)

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None