MHG10073 - Stone tools, Migdale

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 551 BC)

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Full Description

Stone implements, consisting of two scrapers, a flake and two rough chert fragments were picked up on or near the knoll on which EBA hoard (MHG10007) had been found, and may or may not have been associated with it. A whorl of micaceous schist was picked up about 20 yards from the site and was probably not associated with it.
J Anderson 1901.

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--- SHG1240 Text/Publication/Article: Anderson, J. 1901. 'Notice of a hoard of bronze implements and ornaments, and buttons of jet, found at Migdale, on the Estate of Skibo, exhibited to the Society by Mr Andrew Carnegie of Skibo, LL. D., FSAScot', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 35 1900-1, p.266-75. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 266-75. 275.

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Location

Grid reference	Centred NH 6329 9209 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

Finds (4)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 551 BC?)
FLAKE (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 551 BC?)
SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 551 BC?)

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/14042 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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