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Description: | Large knife made on a flake of black volcanic rock, perhaps pitchstone. It has a keeled back, and has been ground over the whole surface, with extra polishing/grinding to sharpen blade down one side. Parallel grooves visible on blade - maybe use marks.
"Polished pitchstone knife, Bog of Fintray (c4000-4000BC)."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status in the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age. This is a knife made on a flake of black pitchstone. It has been ground so that the whole surface is smooth and one edge is sharpened to a fine cutting edge by grinding. The back of the knife, although damaged, appears to be blunted. There is a slight keel running along the centre of the blade. Parallel grooves can be seen on the blade which may result from use. The knife was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire along with other well-made flint tools. The technique and style of manufacture of the tools is typical of the later Neolithic period. The pitchstone does not come from Aberdeenshire and this indicates that the raw material, if not the tool, was brought from elsewhere in Britain. The size and shape of this knife resembles bronze razors from the Bronze Age in Scotland"
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 2900 BC-1800 BC; LNEO EBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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