Bloodstone was used throughout prehistory to make tools. Just one source - at Bloodstone Hill on the island of Rum, Inverness-shire was exploited and tools and debitage are found at various sites on Rum and further afield. For more information see CR Wickham-Jones 1990 Excavations on Rhum: Mesolithic and Later Sites at Kinloch

Holding a large nodule of bloodstone

Bloodstone was used throughout prehistory to make tools. Just one source – at Bloodstone Hill on the island of Rum, Inverness-shire was exploited and tools and debitage are found at various sites on Rum and further afield. For more information see CR Wickham-Jones 1990 Excavations on Rhum: Mesolithic and Later Sites at Kinloch

Hammerstones, flaked stone bars and a saddle quern from St Kilda.