These were most likely some form of agricultural tool - hafted to be used as mattocks or hoes. They are common to Bronze Age sites in Shetland and Orkney where they can occur in their hundreds.

Flaked stone bars from Sumburgh, Shetland

These were most likely some form of agricultural tool – hafted to be used as mattocks or hoes. They are common to Bronze Age sites in Shetland and Orkney where they can occur in their hundreds.

These stone points were hafted to an ard and used to till the soil.

These have been shaped from the local shale to form a hatchet or cleaver-like head with a handle.