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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.

Posted on November 2, 2009 Full size 750 × 504

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