NMS Archaeology Object 725161: X.2015.85.4 - Object / find


Description

Summary


Find from Huxter, Whalsay, Shetland


Accession Number


X.2015.85.4


Other references

None

Original description

X.2015.85 = X.____ tbc = Finds from sites on Whalsay Shetland, including Bunyie Hoose, Pettigersfield (X.2015.85.1); Willie’s Wart cist(X.2015.85.2); Peerie Roen cairn (X.2015.85.3); Huxter (X.2015.85.4); Knowe of Pettigersfield (X.2015.85.5), apparently all per John Stewart, Whalsay 1938. Previously stored in a small wooden crate marked Stone implements etc from Whalsay, Shetland, sent with EO 744-747 but not worth registering. From John Stewart 1938. Also fragments of pottery from Huxter, Whalsay, Shetland’; the individual items had originally been distinguished by numbered paper labels but in most cases these are now detached and can no longer be associated with individual objects. X.2015.85.1 = Finds from Bunyie Hoose, Pettigersfield (including worked stone (including stone bars, potlids etc, some still labelled); quartz cobbles and flakes; sherds and fragments of pottery with paper label marked ‘No 32. Pieces of steatite vessel with iron encrustations, Bunyie Hoose, Pettigersfield’; X.2015.85.2 = Finds from Willie’s Wart cist; X.2015.85.3 = Finds from Peerie Roen cairn; X.2015.85.4 = Finds from Huxter; X.2015.85.5 = Finds from Knowe of Pettigersfield. Previously unregistered, located and allocated year registration number during Leith decant 2014/2015; no classified catalogue number allocated pending detailed cataloguing [no time during decant]

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)

Huxter, Sandness, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

2015

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Unknown

Image

None

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