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INTRODUCTION : THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD

NO. -- OBJECT -- LOCALITY -- REFERENCES

1 -- Bones of whale -- Cardross -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
2 -- Bones of whale -- Ballinton -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
3 -- Bones of whale, antler axe, wood handle -- Blair Drummond -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
4 -- * Bones of whale, antler axe, wood handle -- Woodyett, Meiklewood -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
5 -- Bones of whale -- West Carse -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
6 -- Bones of whale, wood handle -- Cornton, Causewayhead -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
7 -- Worked antler point -- Stirling Bridge -- Lacaille, The Stone Age in Scot-
land (1954) 172, fig. 65, 3.
8 -- Bones of whale, worked antler point -- Causewayhead -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
9 -- Bones of whale -- Cow Park, Stirling -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
10 -- Bones of whale -- Cow Park, Stirling -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
11 -- Bones of whale -- Forthbank -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
12 -- Bones of whale, antler axe -- Airthrey -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
13 -- Bones of whale -- Dunmore -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
14 -- Bones of whale -- Dunmore -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
15 -- Bones of whale -- Dunmore -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
16 -- Bones of whale -- Dunmore -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
17 -- Bones of whale -- Falkirk -- N.S.A., viii (Stirlingshire), 12.
18 -- Bones of whale -- Grangemouth -- Antiquity, xxi (1947), 84 ff.
19 -- Bone axe -- Grangemouth -- Lacaille, The Stone Age in Scot-
land (1954), 173, fig. 66.
20 -- Shell-heap -- Mumrills -- P.S.A.S. lxxx (1945-6), 137.
21 -- Shell-heap -- Polmonthill -- Ibid., 135 ff.
22 -- Shell-heap -- Inveravon -- P.S.A.S., ix (1870-2) 45 ff.

* In the Anatomy Museum, University of Edinburgh.

2. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
West Stirlingshire lies on the north-east flank of the main area penetrated by the builders of
the Clyde-Carlingford chambered cairns, ¹ dateable not later than the middle of the third
millennium B.C.; and sufficient structures of this type have been located further north in Central
Scotland (Fig. 2) to show that the settlements of these peoples extended as far as upper
Strathtay. ² The ruinous cairn on Stockie Muir (No. 12), together with four others now largely
destroyed (cf. Nos. 32, 35, 36), are the Stirlingshire representatives of these settlements.
In addition to such monuments, the presence of these stone-using agricultural communities
is further attested by widely distributed small finds. Several sherds of Western Neolithic
pottery were excavated at Bantaskine, near Falkirk, and one of secondary Neolithic at
Mumrills ³ ; as no associated burials were recorded when these were found, it is possible that
they may mark domestic sites. Both places are a few mile north-west of the Neolithic
monument on Cairnpapple Hill, West Lothian. ⁴ In addition, numerous stone axe-heads have

1 P.S.A.S., lxxxiii (1948-9), 103 ff.
2 Ibid., lxxxviii, 112 ff. The Commissioners are indebted to the authors of this paper and to Mr. J. G. Scott for additional
information which has been incorporated in Fig. 2 and used in this section.
3 Ibid., l (1915-6), 255; lxiii (1928-9), 35, 56 f., 81 f., 544 and fig. 107.
4 Ibid., lxxxii (1947-8), 68 ff.

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