Chisel of bronze

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This bronze chisel was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. It was either imported from Ireland or copied from examples originally made there between 950 and 750 BC.

The chisel has a socket, which would have had a wooden handle fitted into it.

Socketed chisels 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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• Online ID: 000-100-034-626-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DQ 214
• Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
  
• Material: Bronze
  Chisel
  
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• What: Chisel
  
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• Where: Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
  
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• Description: Bronze chisel from Adabrock, Lewis
  
• 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. pp 50-1, 127. 
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