Kiondroghad, Andreas
Date(s): 1982-2015
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Manuscript notes on finds processing - three A5 pages
Finds scatter diagram - pencil and ink on graph paper
Correspondence/cover-note for following items
Flint drawings numbers 1-283
Manuscript lists of blade groupings for finds archive - eight pages in total
Correspondence with museum - printed email dated 04-05/11/2015
Manx Museums database search results for Kiondroghad finds - printed screen shot
Administration / Biographical History: This was an extra-mural student project involving the processing and preliminary assessment of the more than one thousand worked flints that were recovered from excavations at the early medieval site of Kiondroghad (NX 396 002), details of which were not included in the 1969 publication: Gelling, P. S. 1969, 'A metal working site at Kiondroghad Kirk Andreas, Isle of Man' in Medieval Archaeology 13, 67-83.
The preliminary assessment included 283 life-size pencil drawings of the most complete blades and scrapers from the collection and included tabulated striking platforms, and length and width measurements. An attempt at classifying the flints into five groups according to form was completed and the finds were washed, labelled and packed for archiving. There is also additional discussion about the finds with Manx National Heritage, prior to the project summary publication.
People:
C. M. Longworth
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/6
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