Large assemblages that I have recently studied
Sandwick, Unst, Shetland
GUARD
Iron Age occupation.
Bornais, South Uist
Cardiff University
Bronze Age roundhouse with evidence for the storage of coarse stone tools.
Ebberston Moor, North Yorkshire
Landscape Research Centre
Multi-period flint assemblage with Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/ Early Bronze Age occupation.
Black Spout, Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
Rotary querns and perforated weights dominated the stone assemblage from this Iron Age homestead.
Many excavations remain unpublished. Here are a number of more interesting worked stone reports that have yet to see the light of day.
Skara Brae, Links of Noltland, Wideford Hill, Stonehall and Crossiecrown
All are Neolithic settlement sites in Orkney. These large and interesting coarse stone assemblages have been incorporated into a wider synthesis of the use of coarse stone tools in the Northern Isles (Clarke 2006).
Minehowe, Orkney
ORCA
This is a fascinating Iron Age occupation centred on an underground chamber. Many of the coarse stone tools were associated with craft activities around and within a workshop.
Midross, Loch Lomond
GUARD
Mainly Iron Age and later sites with interesting coarse stone assemblages.
Dun Aonghasa and Dun Eonachta, County Clare
Discovery Programme, Dublin
An unusually large coarse stone assemblage from two Arran Forts.
West Heslerton, North Yorkshire
Landscape Research Centre
A large flaked lithic assemblage deposited during Mesolithic, Neolithic, Beaker, Bronze Age and Iron Age activity across a wide area.
St Kilda
GUARD
Flaked coarse stone tools similar to those found in the Northern Isles were quarried and manufactured on St Kilda.
Shiant Islands, Lewis
Coarse stone tools and an interesting assemblage of flaked baked mudstone.
Ben Lawers, Perthshire
GUARD
A range of coarse stone artefacts found during investigations of this historical landscape project.
Bayanne, Yell, Shetland
EASE
A large and important assemblage of coarse stone tools was found during the excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age structures. See Clarke 2006.
The Udal, North Uist and Rosinish, Benbecula
Two large assemblages of flaked quartz from the Western Isles.
