Domestic & Farming

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Flint microlith, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
A small flint microlith with curving retouch along one edge.  Microliths date from the Mesolithic pe
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Waste flint, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
Some of the hundreds of pieces of waste flint left behind after tool making.   Hundreds of flint t
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Used flint blades, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
These flint blades all show signs of wear along one or more edges.  This indicates that they have be
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Flint cores, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
A selection of flint cores.  These are the waste pieces created when flakes and blades have been rem
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Flint scrapers, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
A selection of flint scrapers.  Most have been made by shaping and retouching large flakes.  Some of
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Retouched flint, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
A selection of flint flakes that have been retouched by blunting and shaping one or more edges.  The
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Polished flint flake, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
A slender flake of flint, probably from a polished flint axe.  Flakes like this were produced as was
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Pitchstone flakes, Mark Farm, Castle Kennedy
Two flakes of pitchstone.   Pitchstone is a glass-like volcanic stone which is found on Arran.  Fl
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Pitchstone, Luce Sands
Small blades and flakes of pitchstone collected from Luce Sands by W F Cormack in the 1960s and 70s.
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Flake from a stone axe, Luce Sands
A large flake or fragment from a polished stone axe.  A number of axe flakes have been found on the
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Stone axe, Cairnpat
A stone axe with a damaged butt.  The axe has been ground and polished and polishing lines - paralle
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Neolithic Building, Lockerbie
A Neolithic timber hall, about 27m long and 8m wide,  excavated ahead of the construction of a new a
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