Stuart Feather Lithics Collection

This archive contains data on the physical Lithic collection amassed by Stuart Feather. Feather also made an impressive collection of Neolithic stone axe rough-outs from most of the major axe-factories in the British Isle: Langdale in Cumbria, Mynnyd Rhiw and Gareg Fawr in N. Wales, and Tievebulliagh in N. Ireland. He was also an avid and long-term collector of prehistoric flint tools and waste, much of it from the local moors around Keighley, in particular on Oxenhope Moor, where he recognised several new Mesolithic sites or 'workshops'. Even more impressively, he collected huge quantities of Mesolithic flint tools, flakes and waste off the Carrs S of Scarborough, including from around the famous Mesolithic site of Star Carr, and alone gathered together the largest single collection of Mesolithic flint axes (13 axes in all, mostly of the characteristic tranchet type) to have been found in the area.