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
14149939
Media ID
46169428
Size
8268px x 6201px
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Credit
Photographer
Source
Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
