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Waste from flint industry Field collection: Surface finds,Tentsmuir, Fife Collected by Mr James Christie Museum number 1969-207-1=114 Waste from flint industry: various cores, blades, scrapers, flakes and miscellaneous flints. ...

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Hammer stone Field collection: Mesolithic Morton excavation, Tayport, Fife Collected by Dr John Coles Donated by Mr GC Sim Museum number 1976-942-1 Small oval pebble of pinkish quartzite with a polish on one surface. The narrower end is ...

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Hammerstones or grinding stones Field collection: Mesolithic Morton excavation, Tayport, Fife Collected by Dr John Coles Donated by Mr GC Sim Museum number 1976-942-2=3 Hammerstones or grinding stones. One is a pebble of yellowish quar ...

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Polished stone adze Field collection: Spitalfield, Caputh, Perth and Kinross Donated by JW Torrance An adze is similar in purpose and use to an axe but with the cutting edge at right angles to the handle rather than aligned with it. The prin ...

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