Fig. 214.—Cap of Sandstone from Broch of Okstrow (3½ inches in diameter).
The Broch of Okstrow, in Birsay, excavated by Mr. Leask of Boardhouse, yielded a number of the commoner implements of stone, such as hammer-stones and rough circular discs, a well-made cup of sandstone, 3½ inches in diameter
Fig. 214.—Cap of Sandstone from Broch of Okstrow (3½ inches in diameter). (Fig. [214]), its cavity still bearing the marks of the pointed tool by which it was fashioned; a thin flat disc of compact slaty stone, 3¼ inches diameter, smoothly polished on both sides, and ground flat on the edges like those from the Brochs of Burray, Old Stirkoke, and Kintradwell; three lamps of sandstone, one of which seems an unskilful imitation of the form of a Roman lamp (Fig. [215]); while the others (Fig. [216][216]) are similar to the lamp from Kettleburn.
Figs. 215, 216.—Lamps from the Broch of Okstrow. Among the other objects found were two of the long-handled combs of bone, a flat piece of bone resembling a weaver’s rubbing implement for smoothing or calendering the web after it is woven, and several spindle-whorls of stone and bone; a bone ring, 2 inches diameter, perforated with small holes, and a tableman made of an ox tooth.
Fig. 217.—Bronze Pin from Broch of Okstrow (4¾ inches in length). The objects in metal were a bronze pin, 4¾ inches in length (Fig. [217]), ornamented with
