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Description: | Flat, rectangular mace head, known as a "cushion" type. Perforation is cylindrical. Green coloured stone, a hornfelsed phyllite from Killin, Perthshire. Findspot unknown.
"Mace-head made of stone quarried at Killin, Perthshire, used in West Aberdeenshire c.2500BC - c1800BC."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Polished stone mace heads date from the later Neolithic period and early Bronze Age about 3500-2000BC. They may be stone copies of earlier antler ones. They do not have a cutting edge, and have a cylindrical shaft hole. They are often found as grave goods both in individual and communal burials, and possession of one may have signified an individual's standing in the community. The distribution of mace heads in NE Scotland echoes that of carved stone balls. This mace head is flat and rectangular, known as a 'cushion' type. The cross-section is rectangular and the perforation is cylindrical. It is made of a hornfelsed phyllite from Killin, Perthshire. This is an example of an artefact made from a raw material quarried during the prehistoric period and used for stone tools which have a wide distribution throughout Northern Britain."
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: | 4000 BC-600 BC; NEO BA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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