Object numberOM-3927
Description"Strong, flat flagstone tools which have been roughly chipped to a sub-rectangular shape. One end and the sides are trimmed but the majority of the butt ends are simply squared off and may have a smooth fracture surface. This may represent the finished state of the article or to may be that most of the examples in this group were broken during use. They have been divided into three categories. Those which wre broken in manufacture or use or appear incomplete." Butt end of a tool broken during manufacture or use.
Production periodIron Age
Collection PlaceBu Broch, Stromness
Object namemattock
Object categoryartefact, stone