A Collection of Stone and Flint Implements from Airhouse, Parish of Channelkirk, Berwickshire

Abstract

The collection consists of a flint axe; eight stone axes; a stone hammer; an anvil stone; a perforated stone; five stone whorls, one being of shale or jet; a bead, and a small fragment of an armlet of the latter material; a spear-head, forty arrow-heads, six borers, a saw, ten long narrow implements dressed steeply on the edges and flat on the under side, three being chipped on one edge only, forty-two triangular implements of peculiar form, ninety-four scrapers, nineteen triangular\r\nimplements, some of which may have been arrow-heads, five knives, and a considerable number of flakes and blades showing secondary working,all being of flint except a very few which are of chert. All the artefacts came from a fairly restricted location and are described in detail here.