Lithics, including flint strike-a-lights and gun flints, are found well into the historic period on sites, but in the past have received little attention (Hardy and Wickham-Jones 2009). Assessing use in the post-medieval period requires good dating. Gun flints have received the most attention (see Ballin 2012), but there has been little work on Highland material.
In This Section:
Regional
- Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework (CVARF)
- South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework
- Highland Archaeological Research Framework
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sources
- 3. Land and Environment
- 4. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
- 5. Neolithic
- 6. Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
- 7. Iron Age
- 8. Early Medieval
- 9. Medieval
- 10. Post-Medieval
- Highland Archaeological Research Framework: Case Studies
- Bibliography
- Perth and Kinross Archaeological Research Framework
- Regional Archaeological Research Framework for Argyll
- South West Scotland Archaeological Research Framework
- Scotland's Islands Research Framework for Archaeology