MHG58702 - Flint - Allt na H Eirigh

Summary

One chunk of chalcedonic silica was picked up from a boulder in the centre of the stream during the Scotland's First Settlers Project.

Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 8000 BC? to 551 BC?)

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NG 6958 5645
One chunk of chalcedonic silica was picked up from a boulder in the centre of the stream during the Scotland's First Settlers Project in 2000. The find of a single undiagnostic lithic which may well represent background noise, though it would be worth monitoring sites like this to check whether further archaeological finds erode out. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

<1> SHG24512 Text/Publication/Monograph: Hardy, K and Wickham-Jones, C (eds). 2007. Mesolithic and later sites around the Inner Sound, Scotland: the work of the Scotland's First Settlers project 1998-2004, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 31. Scottish Archaeological Internet Report. 31. Digital. Section 2.2.5, SFS 60. XY

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Grid reference	Centred NG 6958 5645 (40m by 40m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG65NE
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	APPLECROSS

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http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-310-1/dissemination/pdf/sair31.pdf (Link to published Scottish Archaeological Internet Report)

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