Written by Steven Mithen, chairman of Islay Heritage and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading.
the excavation at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, April 2017, looking eastwards across the Sound of Islay towards the Isle of Jura
A stone arrowhead from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, made in the distinctive style of the Ahrensburgian ice age culture and likely to date to around 12,000 years ago.