Flint Scatter Project
Date(s): 1994, 1999
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Flint Scatter Project:
Manx Wetland Project: Preliminary survey of prehistoric flint scatters and stray finds - report by Sinead Mc Cartan (Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Ulster Museum, Belfast), July 1994; ring-bound 27 A4 pages; 7 A4 photocopies of 1sr Edition OS map with scatters numbered and marked.
Cowley flints list by location and type, annotated printout from SMR; 39 A4 pages.
Edited details from the Mesolithic section of Sites and Monuments Records; 74 A4 pages.
Edited details from the Neolithic section of Sites and Monuments Records; 26 A4 pages, 116 entries.
Flint scatters of probable Bronze Age date; 5 x A4 pages.
Correspondence: January to October 1999:
20 01 1999 JJW to Sinead McCartan (Ulster Museum) explaining the plotting of flint scatters.
15 02 1999 JJW to SM layout for proposed flint record system.
24 02 1999 SM to JJW what is reason for collecting the flint scatter information.
24 02 1999 JJW to SM explanation of reasons for collecting scatter information; 2 A4 pages.
31 03 1999 SM to JJW as compromise she will annotate flint scatter lists.
01 04 1999 SM to JJW P happy with compromise.
21 06 1999 SM to JJW progress report on lithic scatters.
22 06 1999 SM to JJW query about plot numbers and parish codes.
29 06 1999 SM to JJW problem of relationship between SMR numbers and accession numbers.
14 07 1999 SM to JJW ditto; also about Rheast Buigh.
26 07 1999 SM to JJW issue of export license for flints to go to Ulster from IOM.
29 07 1999 SM to JJW permission needed before export license given.
29 07 1999 JJW to SM no need to worry about deadlines; Rheast Buigh flints being sorted for export.
31 07 1999 SM to JJW apologies for delay in completing the flint scatter study.
01 09 1999 SM to JJW finished flint scatters last night.
02 09 1999 SM to JJW (letter) to accompany y the annotated list of Mesolithic flint scatters.
06 09 1999 SM to JJW she has cancelled her planned visit to the IOM.
20 09 1999 SM to JJW Neolithic flint scatters list completed.
20 09 1999 SM to JJW (letter) to accompany Neolithic flint scatters; some issues were raised (2 pages).
23 09 1999 JJW to SM discussion of problem of SMR and accession numbers (2 pages).
24 09 1999 JJW to SM queries about the coding of types such as knapping debris (2 pages).
24 09 1999 JJW to SM best ways of dealing with SMR is to base work on actual artefacts that exist (2 pages).
28 09 1999 SM to JJW problem of discrepancies between place-names and plot numbers.
28 09 1999 SM to JJW she has a copy of the Cowley list with accession numbers; offers to send annotated copy to JJW.
29 09 1999 SM to JJW (letter) to go with Cowley printout; plot numbers should be used (2 pages).
05 10 1999 JJW to SM List of Cowley flints has arrived; confused but useful.
Digital media:
One 3.5” square disk (1.65MB) labelled ‘Flint Scatters; Fintba.Fin; Flint.Mes.Fin; FlintNeo.Fin; SMR(edited) + Sinead’s comments’.
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/23/2
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