Convex Scraper
Parknabinnia, County Clare
Parknabinnia Court Tomb on Roughan Hill dates from about the middle of the fourth millennium BC, and consists of a cairn with a gallery of three chambers fronted by a small forecourt. Excavation showed that the chambers contained large numbers of human and animal bones.
Most were placed in the tomb in a disarticulated state but some of the bones appear to have been partially articulated and some were cremated.
Scrapers such as this one were used for cleaning animal skins to make clothes.
Ref: 98E0230:54
Death
and Burial Collection
National
Museum of Ireland, Irish Antiquities Division Collection
Neolithic Collection
Parknabinnia Collection
Tools and
Equipment Collection
Photograph appears courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland
Database
of Irish Excavations Report
Megalithomania
Court Tomb
Scrapers
Karst
of Ireland - The Burren
