Find Spot record 347 - KNOCK, LEWIS

NB43SE 3 49 31.
Cushion mace-head "found in 1904 by Mr George Macleod at Knock, on top of a gravel bed under 5ft of peat". Length 5.15 ins (13.1cm) breadth 1.65 ins (4.2cm) tapering slightly towards sub-rounded ends, maxinum thickness 1.25ins (3.2cm) also tapering. "The haft-hole is nearer the narrower end of 3/4 in., has parallel sides and is 0.7 ins (1.7cm) in diameter; the drilling is technically perfect." In the School Museum of the Nicholson Institute, Stornoway; exhibited on loan at Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 14 May 1944.
W J Gibson 1934; 1944.

This mace-head, a remarkably fine specimen, is still in the Nicolson Institute, where it is labelled found " at Knock Point" (NB 4931). Visited by OS (A L F R) assistent archaeology officer, 22 April 1964.

Now in the collections of Museum nan Eilean MML 13.7.2000

W J Gibson, 1933-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 430-2 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2077.

W J Gibson, 1943-4, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16-25 pl. I (Bibliographic reference). SWE2079.

P R Ritchie, 1968, The stone implement trade in third-millenium Scotland, 132 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6232.