Summary

This leaf-shaped arrowhead from Scotland is characteristic of the Neolithic period. It was donated to the museum in September 1932 as part of a group of three small stone implements said to originate from 'Laurence Kirk, Kincardine'. This locality is almost certainly the town of Laurencekirk in the contemporary administrative region of Aberdeenshire. The donor, 'General Wisdom', was Brigadier-General Evan Alexander Wisdom (1869­-1945), a Scot who emigrated to Australia as a young man, served in the Australian military and then worked as Administrator of the Territory of New Guinea. He departed Rabaul, New Guinea, in June 1932. This donation dates from the time between his leaving New Guinea and retirement in mid 1933.

Bibliography
Torben Bjarke Ballin, 'Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods', Archaeopress Publishing, Summertown (Oxford), 2021.
Ronald McNicoll, 'Wisdom, Evan Alexander (1869-1945)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wisdom-evan-alexander-9160/text16173, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 1 October 2025.

Acknowledgements
With thanks to Professor Mark Moore of the Museum of Stone Tools.

Physical Description

A leaf-shaped arrowhead.

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