Scord of Brouster

In all, nearly 10,000 pieces of quartz were found at the Scord of Brouster.^[6] 5,688 stone artefacts were found in house one, 3,772 stone artefacts were found in house two, and only 227 stone artefacts were found in house three. Of the 227 items found in house three, 225 are merely quartz flakes and chips. These pieces were found in what appears to be three phases: prior to the construction of the buildings, during active use, and during abandonment.^[1][6]

Before this house was built, most of the artefacts were scattered across the southern portion of the building's area. After the construction of the house, the centre of the building had far fewer quartz artefacts. Instead, the artefacts were concentrated in places inside the house beside the walls. In the final phase, most stone pieces were found by the walls of the house.^[6]

Both prior to construction and during its use, the artefacts were mostly concentrated on the western side and near the central fireplace. The eastern side had very few artefacts, and a recess in the northeast corner had even fewer, which led the archaeologists to believe that it may have been a sleeping area. After abandonment, the artefacts were scattered relatively evenly across the entire area.^[6]

The second house contained only about three-fourths the number of tool artefacts that the first house did.^[6] However, they had nearly identical percentages of types of tools found. For example, house one contained 91 scrapers compared to the 69 found in house two, but that corresponds to 75% of the artefacts found in house one and 77% of the artefacts found in house two.^[6]

Relatively few artefacts were found in the third house, so there was no real way for the researchers to discover any concentrations of artefacts.^[6]

• Neolithic Europe
• Stone Age