Find Spot record MAB47785 - BACKHILL OF FOULZIE

Flint scatter.

Flint scatter. This low lying field was fieldwalked in March 2003 when a circa 200m x 75m lithic spread was identified. Approximately 300 lithic finds were recovered with chert pebbles, waste, cores, borers and scrapers being present. The total of 52 chert pebbles contrasts markedly with the low number of this type of find found elsewhere on the hill. It is of additional interest that they either show only slight or no evidence of having been worked by man. During field walking in 2004-2005 a further 490 pieces of worked chert/flint were found. Along with the normal knapping debris there are cores of different types, block scrapers of several sizes, end scrapers, tiny thumbnail scrapers, parts of cutters and knives, as well as points and borers. An almost straight sided barbed-and-tanged arrowhead was found, together with a small part of a leaf-shaped arrowhead. An unusual lithic find is what appears to be a slender flint drill bit. Also present is much of a blue marbled glass bead. Pottery finds are few and fragmentary, although some are suspected to come from Grooved ware vessels.

LINDSAY, WJ, 2004, HILL OF FOULZIE, FIELDWALKING 2004 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2799.

LINDSAY, S, 2006, DES VOL6, 2005, p.16 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1129.

field survey

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