Sandstone Toys?

Over the past couple of very late evenings in my study I have been trying to establish a "raison d'etre" for the sculpted  sandstone imitation tool!

There is no doubt, at all, in my mind that it was meant to be an imitation tool for the education of the young!

Of all the important implements to be displayed at my eventual presentation, this will be the most significant!

If there is anyone out there who has retrieved a sandstone facsimile of a Palaeolithic tool from amongst clusters of identifiable Palaeolithic/Mesolithic flint flndings please get in touch!

Watch this space!

Sandstone tools?

In organising my flint collection tonight for my Hatton presentation I came across one of my finds which I had put to the side as detritus.

This find is of sandstone.

However, it's dimensions would have been impossible to have been naturally manufactured!

It was withdrawn from amongst clays such also supported important Flint caches!

It was unnaturally formed but had not been designed as a tool!

It is soft to the touch and unique!

Watch this space!

Photographs of moss of Cruden Lithics!

Have compiled a nice and definitive pictorial presentation of our Moss of Cruden findings!

I will try to arrange this as an official presentation on the net but if you log into Palaeolithic Scotland on the net you will get the gist of the presentation which I had hoped to have delivered!

Have spent the past few weeks in my garage arranging the undeniable, Palaeolithic to Neolithic artefacts we recovered from the between the  Moss of Cruden and Ellon.

This is quite exciting and promising!

Watch this space until notification of when my Hatton presentation will take place.

A Hatton Council representative has kindly  agreed to my proposal that my presentation should take place at some time in the future when Covid has been defeated!

Keep Safe until then!

I have  spent many hours late into the night arranging our findings from the Moss of Cruden and 

 Have been advised by a highly respected archaeologist that I should go with the hands on presentation!

So that's how it will go!

Will advise when this will take place.

Watch this space!

01/11/20 HATTON Presentation "Palaeolithic Scotland" Cancelation!

 Given the pandemic which is ravaging our planet at the moment it is most important that I postpone my presentation at Hatton till further notice!

I have cancelled the 01/11/20 date with the hall proprietors!

I will try and arrange an On line  presentation of all of our excavated material from Moss of Cruden and Ellon but it w'not be the same as "Touchy Feely" which I had hoped that you would experience with the artefacts at my presentation .

Watch this Space!

COVID! and Palaeolithic Scotland!

 Current Shutdown requirements  cause me to postpone my Hatton presentation as regards social distancing!

I am in complete agreement with these requirements! Watch this space!

Have much more to tell, when shutdown is lifted!

TSUNAMI INFLUENCE on Moss of Cruden

 A point which I will raise at my Hatton presentation will be the obvious dumping of so many mounds of fairly symmetrical pebbles near our area of investigations.

These dumpings  were not humanly contrived, I believe; but are the evidence of a tsunami which overshot or missed our particular areas of investigation.

Lots to tell.