33003: CARISHADER, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Bronze Age – 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Summary:
FINDSPOT (Bronze Age – 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Findspot of barbed & tanged quartz arrowhead
Location:
NB 09 33
Full description:
NB03SE 3 09 33.
A barbed-and-tanged arrow-head of local translucent quartz found at Carishader and measuring 1.2" long by 0.7" broad by 013" thick, is in the School Museum at Nicholson Institute, Stornoway.
W J Gibson 1934.
No further information regarding this find spot. The Nicholson Institute collection has been dispersed.
Visited by OS (R L) 30 June 1969.
References:
1933-4. ‘Some prehistoric relics from Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 68. 428 fig. 1.1
Acknowledgement:
Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.
Record Location
Details
- Record Type:
- Historical or Archaeological Site
- Type Of Site:
- Findspot
- Period:
- Bronze Age (2350-700 BC)
- SMRRecord ID:
- MWE4040
- Record Maintained by:
- CEU