Bone mattock, Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney
Bone mattock or pick, with hole for handle, made from the leg joints of cattle, used for digging and stripping blubber from whales, from Skara Brae, a Neolithic village occupied 3180-2500 BC consisting of 9 stone houses and a workshop linked by passages, in the Orkney Museum at Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14149940
Media ID
46162808
Size
7087px x 4607px
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Credit
Photographer
Source
Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
