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Whetstone

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From Adabrock, Lewis, Outer Hebrides

Postcard of Whetstone.
000-100-034-639-C
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Whetstone

Whetstones were used to sharpen metal tools. This stone example was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. The hoard was buried between 950 and 750 BC.

Polisher of quartzitic slate stone from Adabrock, Lewis

The Adabrock hoard demonstrates the widespread and complex links between the elite of Scotland and the outside world during the early first millennium BC. The inclusion of whetstones in this hoard seems to underline the importance of such simple tools.


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Online ID: 000-100-034-639-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DQ 227
Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
Material: Quartzitic slate stone
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What: Polisher
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Where: Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
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References:
  • 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. p 127. 
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