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View full screenHammer of cetacean bone, from Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney, Early Neolithic, c.3600-3200 cal BC
X.EOD 170
Early Neolithic
Hammer, cetacean bone, cut perforation 27mm diam. (small natural perforation runs through object at an angle)
Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe
Ritchie, A. 1983 Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 113 (1983), 40-290