Butchery chopper of stone

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This butchery chopper made from stone was found on Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides. It is an early example of a cooking tool, used sometime between 6000 and 3500 BC.

Stone butchery chopper from Oronsay, Argyll, 6000 - 3500 BC

The earliest inhabitants in Scotland moved around the landscape, carrying their tools for gathering, fishing and hunting with them, or making others from local resources.

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• Online ID: 000-100-102-581-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.HP 708
• Date: 6000 - 3500 BC
  Between 6000 and 3500 BC
  
• Material: Stone; in shape of a spearhead
  Chopper, butchery
  
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• What: Chopper, butchery
  
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• Who: Mungo Buchanan Collection (Item originally from collection)
  
• Where: Scotland, Argyll, Oronsay
  
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