In 2002, an examination was carried out of a small quartz vein at the knoll of Cnoc Dubh, a
few hundred metres from the southern shores of Loch Ceann Hulabhig on the Isle of Lewis …

Abstract The project Quartz Technology in Scottish Prehistory was initiated in the year 2000,
and over the following five years a large number of quartz assemblages were examined …

This paper discusses an assemblage of worked and smashed quartz associated with a
Bronze Age kerbed cairn at Olcote. Most analytical treatments of quartz in Scottish prehistory …

The deposits of the Bytham River, that flowed across central England until the Anglian
glaciation (Marine Isotope Stage 12) overrode and destroyed it, have been exposed in many …

An archaeological excavation was carried out by the Centre for Field Archaeology (CFA)
from October to December 1995 of a Bronze Age kerbed cairn at Olcote, Breasclete, Isle of …

It is generally recognized that, in the Stone and Bronze Ages of Scotland, numerous different
lithic raw materials were used for the manufacture of tools (Saville 1994). While there are …

The recovery of fifteen Lower Palaeolithic quartzite artefacts from a lost river in Norfolk,
together with nearly 300 from the Upper Thames, has prompted this re-assessment of the …

In the late 1970s, a substantial quartz assemblage was recovered from the Neolithic
settlement at Scord of Brouster, Shetland (NGR: HU 2560 5165). At the time, bipolar …

In Sweden the flint mines of Angdala have often been regarded as representative of lithic
procurement. During recent years several sites in Sweden have been interpreted as quartz …

A vast assemblage of worked and natural quartz, flint and other kinds of stone was
recovered from, on, within, under and near the cairn at Olcote. In an interpretative sense the …