Knives

These three flint knives were found in a chambered cairn at Giants' Graves on Whiting Bay on the island of Arran. Flint arrowheads, various sherds of pottery and a large amount of cremated human remains were also recovered.

The knife on the left was made by careful retouching of the upper surface of a broad, curving flake of flint from County Antrim in Ireland. The middle knife would have been oval, but the tip has snapped off.

Many of Scotland's early farming communities buried their dead in imposing communal tombs - stone chambers, covered with mounds of earth or stone, linked to the outside of the mound by a passage or forecourt. The tombs were used over several generations.

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