Strike-a-light

Description

Thirty-three small clacined fragments of a bifacially flaked flint strike-a-light or axehead, associated with creamted bone in stone-hole C, of the stone circle at Cairnpapple, West Lothian

Museum reference

X.EP 163

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Strike-a-light

Materials

Flint

Physical description

Flint, calcined, outer surface black; bifacially retouched

Collection place(s)

Cairnpapple, West Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe