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Grave goods from Culduthel, Inverness, Inverness-shire

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Grave goods from Culduthel, Inverness, Inverness-shire

This ceramic pot, archery equipment, fire steel and amber bead were found in a cist burial at Culduthel at Inverness in Inverness-shire. The burial was clearly that of an important man, whose grave goods proclaimed his status as an archer and warrior.

The archery equipment consists of a stone wrist guard with metal rivets, a bone belt-ring and eight barbed and tanged flint arrowheads. Along with exotic objects, the man was buried with a flint strike-a-light, which would have been used to start fires by striking it against a rock to create sparks. The pot probably held an offering of food or drink.

Around 2500 BC, a new archery kit was adopted in Scotland from continental Europe, along with prestige items such as the domestic horse and decorated drinking pots. A new type of bow, short and curving, was used as well as new accessories such as these.


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Online ID: 000-000-136-604-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0035: Early Scottish Shelter - Life in the Prehistoric Home (multimedia essay)
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.EQ 855
Date: Between 2300 and 1800 BC
Material: Amber; irregularly shaped; perforated at one side
Bone; napkin ring shape
Ceramic; decorated in bands of horizontal comb-stamped lines alternating with vertical or oblique stamps; restored from numerous fragments
Chert-like flint, whitish; drooping squared barbs; serrated edge
Cherty flint, buff grey, banded; made on a thick flake
Flint, creamy; barbed; tanged; stumpy; worked all over; one barb defective
Flint, grey; drooping squared barbs
Flint, light brown; drooping squared barbs; serrated edges
Flint, pale brown; drooping squared barbs; tang broken
Flint, translucent; drooping squared barbs
Flint, translucent; pointed barbs; finely serrated edges; edges only worked one side
Flint, yellow brown; squared barbs; sides straight instead of convex; serrated edges
Stone, green; four bronze or copper rivets with solid conical heads with sheet gold caps over them
Dimensions: 0.50" x 0.30"
0.80" H x 1.10" D
0.90" L
1.00" L
1.00" L
1.00" L
1.00" L
1.10" L
1.10" L
1.20" L
1.80" x 1.20"
4.10" L x 1.40" W
9.00" H; rim 7.00" x 6.20" D
What: Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Bead
Bracer
Implement / strike a light
Pottery / beaker
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Where: Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
Scotland, Inverness-shire, Inverness, Culduthel Mains
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Description: Beaker decorated in bands of horizontal comb-stamped lines alternating with vertical or oblique stamps, restored from numerous fragments, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Bracer of green stone with four bronze or copper rivets with solid conical heads with sheet gold caps over them, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Bone toggle of 'napkin ring' shape, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Amber bead of irregular shape, perforated at one side, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Flint implement, probably a strike-a-light, made on a thick flake of buff grey banded cherty flint, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Barbed and tanged arrowhead of creamy flint, worked all over, one barb defective, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of translucent flint with pointed barbs and finely serrated edges, edges only worked one side, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of whitish chert-like flint with drooping squared barbs and serrated edge, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of translucent flint with drooping squared barbs, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of light brown flint with drooping squared barbs and serrated edges, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of grey flint with drooping squared barbs, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of pale brown flint with drooping squared barbs, tang broken, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
Arrowhead of yellow brown flint with squared barbs, straight sides and serrated edges, from a cist at Culduthel Mains
References:
  • Clarke, D.V., Cowie, T.G., & Foxon, Andrew (eds). Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. Edinburgh: National Museums of Antiquities of Scotland, 1985, pp 170, 173-4, 267. 
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