Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (3.1976/1979)

STONE ARD POINTS




number of Type 2 tools come from Orkney
and Shetland while tools with a round cross

Fig. 3. Effect of Severe Wear on Stone Ard Point.
Wirkung starker Abnutzung auf eine steinerne Arl-
spitze.
ations (fig. 4), and the wearing away of part of
the tool so that its shape is altered (fig. 3). The
upper face is always the most prominently
marked by wear striations, and the length of
the worn area averages 10.02 cm. Wear on the
lower face is far more restricted and forms a
characteristic U-shape around the tip and
sides near the tip. Wear marks here are usually
restricted to an area 2-3 cm from the tip and
one side is often more heavily worn than the

other. The side wear on the tools is of a charac-

section are twice as likely to come from Shet-

land as from Orkney.

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teristic slanting type formed when the sides of
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Wear Pattern Displayed by Stone Ard
A. Upper Face. B. Lower Face. C, D.
eiBmuster steinerner Arlspitzen. A. Ober-
. Unterseite. C, D. Seiten.