Coarse stone tools are frequent finds at prehistoric sites in Orkney and Shetland. A whole range of tools was made and used for diverse jobs such as butchering, flint knapping, craft work, agriculture, storage and food processing. These stone assemblages are often large, dominated by particular tool types and are found at many different types of site […]
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- What does a lithic specialist do all day?
- Working Stone, Making Communities
- Vintage Stonehenge
- Ritual or Magic?
- A Late Neolithic butchery site in Orkney
- Ground stone from Isle of Man Meolithic
- Medieval Rotary Querns
- Stone discs from Cromarty Medieval Burgh, Scotland
- A Bronze Age Cemetery
- A decorated stone disc from Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
- Worked ochre from Mesolithic sites
- Cromarty Medieval Burgh Community Archaeology Project
- Expanding Horizons: Raw material use during the Late Mesolithic at Stainton West, Carlisle, Cumbria
- An incised Mesolithic bevelled pebble from Scotland
- Stone tools from an Early Iron Age souterrain at Windwick, South Ronaldsay, Orkney
