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Figure 3.6 Non-utilitarian artefacts from Mesolithic sites in Britain: (a) Shale beads from Star Carr; (b)
Perforated cowrie shell ornaments from Oronsay; (c) Engraved pebble from Rhuddlan, c.86mm; (d) Red
deer antler mask; (e) Shale pebble from Nab Head claimed to represent a phallus, c.104mm.
Sources: (a), (d) after Clark 1954; (b) after Mellars 1987; (c) after Berridge, P. and Roberts, A., 1995. ‘The
Mesolithic decorated and other pebble artefacts: synthesis’, in Excavations at Rhuddlan, Clwyd, 1969–1973,
Mesolithic to Medieval. York: CBA Research Report 95; (e) Jacobi, R, 1980. ‘The Early Holocene settlement
of Wales’, in Taylor, J.A. (ed.) Culture and Environment in Prehistoric Wales. Oxford: BAR British Series 76,
131–206