Document record MAB50344 - THE LINKS, BURGHEAD

Site of flint working surface.

Site of flint working surface. In 1936 and 1940, J. M. Davidson is reported to have found a Bronze Age flint working 'floor' or surface about 320 m (350 yards) south of the railway station where a section of beach for exposed for circa 91.4 m (100 yards) and 64 m (70 yards) inland from the High Water Mark. The beach is described as being circa 3 m (10 feet) high, extending from the shore to the railway embankment. The area of flint working was noted 22.8 m (25 yards) from the shore, extending 54.8 m (60 yards) making an area about 32 x 22.8 m (35 x 25 yards), greatly obscured by low sandhills. Flakes and scrapers, some with retouching were found. There was also a fragment, possibly the lower half, of a leaf shaped arrowhead and a fragment of a possible Bronze Age knife. A note in PSAS 1883 records that from this area 'A collection of eleven flint arrowheads, fifty-four scrapers and a hundred and forty flakes worked and unworked was purchased 1883-4 by NMAS.'. The site has not been securely located or its extent mapped.

DONATIONS & PURCHASES, 1883, PSAS 18(1882-3), 363 (Bibliographic reference). SAB387.

DAVIDSON, J. M., 1947, A STONE FLAKING SITE AT BURGHEAD, MORAYSHIRE. TRANSACTIONS OF THE GLASGOW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, vol. 11, pp. 28-30 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4084.

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