From Adabrock, Lewis, Outer Hebrides
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Gouge of bronze
This bronze gouge was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. It dates from between 950 and 750 BC.
The gouge has a socket, which would have had a wooden handle fitted into it.
Socketed gouges were specialised woodworking tools, and may have been the property of a specialist carpenter. The rest of the Adabrock hoard contains valuable tools, jewellery and other items, almost certainly deposited as a gift to the gods.
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000-100-034-625-C |
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National Museums Scotland |
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0098: National Museums Scotland
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National Museums Scotland X.DQ 213 |
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Between 950 and 750 BC
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Bronze
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Gouge
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Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
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Bronze gouge from Adabrock, Lewis
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- Coles, John M. Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 93 (1959-1960), pp 16-134, esp. pp 51, 127.
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