Collectors & Explorers
The Selby Antiquarian Collection
Flint scraper, Caldons Hill
- Period:
- Neolithic
- Description:
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An oval scraper on a flake of brown flint. Retouch around much of edge.
Large scrapers like this were multi-purpose tools used for cutting, scraping and cleaning bone, wood and animal hide.
- Place of Discovery:
- Caldons Hill, Stoneykirk
- Materials/Media:
- Flint
- Dimensions:
- Length: 36mm
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Accession number:
- WIWMS 2004.06.84
- Digital Number:
- SMAH 059
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
- References:
- Murray, J. 2005. The William McDowall Selby Collection, Trans DGNHAS LXXIX, 147-172.
