Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

2010.21.7

Unworked quartz stone. [MN 08/04/2010]

2010.21.7

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Unworked quartz stone. [MN 08/04/2010]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
Unknown
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 07/04/2010
Materials and processes
Material Quartz Stone
Dimensions
Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 23 mm, Weight 4 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 2010.21.7
Research and responses

There are twenty-one megalithic monuments in the Callanish group (Callanish I - XIX). According to Canmore, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) database of Scottish monuments three of the Callanish monuments are recorded as currently also being known as Tursachan, these are: Callanish II (also known s Cnoc Ceann A' Gharraidh; Cnoc Ceann; Ceann A' Gharaodh; Calanais) - NB 22215 32617 - Canmore ID 4169; Callanish III (also known as Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag; Calanais) - NB 22517 32712 - Canmore ID 4167; Callanish IV - (also known as Sron A' Chail; Ceann Hulavig; Calanais; An Ceann Thulabhig) - NB 2297 3042- Canmore ID 4170. Tursachan can also be used more generally in Scottish Gaelic to describe any stone circle or setting. Certainly in the mid 19th century it was used as a general term to describe most - if not all - of the Callanish monuments (see p. 381 of Henry Callender's 1859 article 'Notice Of The Stone Circle At Callernish In The Island Of Lewis' in volume 2 of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland). Consequently it is not possible to say with any degree of certainty from which of the sites this object was collected. The Canmore database can be accessed online at http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/, the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland can be accessed online at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/. [MN 08/04/2010]

Search terms: Specimen, Geology

Further items to explore