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Figure 3.4 previous page and above Chipped stone artefacts from Star Carr and Kinloch, Rum: (a)—
(g) chipped stone artefacts from Star Carr; (h)—(m) chipped stone artefacts from Farm Fields, Kinloch,
Rhum. (a) blade core; (b) scrapers; (c) burin; (d) adze sharpening flake; (f) microliths; (g) borer; (h) conical
platform core; (i) blade core; (j) double platform core; (k) scrapers; (1) borers; (m) microliths (top row, crescents;
middle row, backed bladelets; bottom row, scalene triangles). Scales: (a)—(g) 1:2, (h)—(l) 2:3, (m) 3:4.
Sources: (a)—(g) after Clark 1954; (h)—(m) after Wickham-Jones 1990
Figure 3.5 opposite Organic and coarse stone artefacts from Mesolithic sites: (a) Barbed antler point
from Star Carr (no. 178), c.276mm; (b) Barbed antler point from Star Carr (no. 145), c.180mm; (c) Barbed
antler point from Star Carr (no. 150), c.138mm; (d) Bone pin made from the lateral metacarpal bones of elk
from Star Carr (no. 160), c.148mm; (e) Mattock head of elk antler from Star Carr (no. 159), c.262mm; (f)
Bone/antler harpoons from Oronsay middens, c.124 and 81mm; (g) ‘Limpet scoops’ made from bone/
antler from Caisteal nan Gillean I, Oronsay, c.70mm; (h) Perforated shaped mattock head of red deer antler
from Priory Midden, Oronsay, c.150mm.
Sources: (a)—(e) after Clark 1954; (f) after Anderson, J., 1895. ‘Notice of a cave recently discovered at Oban,