33003: CARISHADER, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Bronze Age – 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age – 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Findspot of barbed & tanged quartz arrowhead

Location:

NB 09 33

Full description:

NB03SE 3 09 33.

A barbed-and-tanged arrow-head of local translucent quartz found at Carishader and measuring 1.2" long by 0.7" broad by 013" thick, is in the School Museum at Nicholson Institute, Stornoway.
W J Gibson 1934.

No further information regarding this find spot. The Nicholson Institute collection has been dispersed.
Visited by OS (R L) 30 June 1969.

References:

1933-4. ‘Some prehistoric relics from Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 68. 428 fig. 1.1

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.