The Neolithic
Domestic & Farming
Carved slab, Whithorn
- Period:
- Neolithic
- Description:
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A broken sandstone slab with a spiral pecked on one face and two oval-type shapes roughly pecked on the other face.
Slabs like this with decoration on both faces may have been used - or re-used - as covers on burial cists.
The slab is on loan to Stranraer Museum from Historic Scotland.
- Place of Discovery:
- Whithorn Golf Course
- Materials/Media:
- Sandstone
- Dimensions:
- 50cm x 33cm x 10cm thick
- Source:
- Stranraer Museum
- Digital Number:
- SMAH 048 (a&b)
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
- References:
- Morris, R. W. 1979. The prehistoric rock art of Galloway and the Isle of Man. (page 179)
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