These unusual tools have a distinctive carefully-shaped handle . They were in use in the Early Bronze Age of Orkney and Shetland.

Handled 'clubs' from Sumburgh, Shetland

These unusual tools have a distinctive carefully-shaped handle . They were in use in the Early Bronze Age of Orkney and Shetland.

These have been shaped from the local shale to form a hatchet or cleaver-like head with a handle.
These unusual stone objects are found at Bronze Age structures in Shetland. They may have been used in the tethering of animals in byres.