2010.23.4

Collection type

Object

Description

Rounded pebble, suggested by the excavators to be a possible hammer-stone. [MN 09/04/2010]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Scotland Western Isles Barvas Galson

Person

Field collector Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell

Field collector Charles Elton

PRM source Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain

Acquisition information

Found unentered: 10/10/2009

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Hammered

Dimensions

Depth: max 34 mm, Width: max 39 mm, Length: max 60 mm, Weight 113 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 2010.23.4

Research and responses

These objects are likely from the Iron Age settlement located in 'Sand Park' field, north of Galson farmhouse (NB 4364 5943). The site was first excavated by Arthur J H Edwards in 1923, however this object was likely collected 10 - 13 years later by Donald Baden-Powell and Charles Elton (as were 2009.153.1, .154.1 & 2010.23.1- .3) who excavated four areas (A - D) in 1933 and 1935. Baden-Powell and Elton published there work in a 1937 article 'On the relation between a raised beach and an Iron Age midden on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides' in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Vol. 71: pp 347-65). It does not appear that this object is mentioned in the publication. [MN 09/04/2010]

The site is recorded on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) Canmore database of archaeological sites under site no. NB45NW 2.00 (Canmore ID 4357). The record can be accessed online at http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/. [MN 10/11/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Hammer-stone