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Charm stone, roughly circular, with two holes.
ID: A182
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Charm stone? Of irregular shape.
ID: A183
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Charm stone?, curved with hole at end.
ID: A184
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Sinker stone, with groove cut around one end.
ID: A185
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Stone, hour-glass shape, probably a sinker stone.
ID: A186

Half a ceremonial Neolithic macehead from a grave in Stenness. HAW identified as a Lewisian Gneiss Thames pestle macehead.

ID: A187
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Large sinker stone, with a hole thro' centre.
ID: A188
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Pone or flaying spade, for removing turf from the peat.
ID: A189
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Pottery urn with cover stone. The urn contains burnt human remains. From a large tumulus at Upper Lyking, Sandwick. 1838. Office bearers of the Orkney Natural History Society were present.
ID: A190
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Pot
Pot of baked clay.
ID: A191