NMS Archaeology Object 14394: H.HY 80 - Horseshoe nail


Description

Summary


Horseshoe nail of iron, from Urquhart Castle, 13th - 17th century


Accession Number


H.HY 80


Other references

HAAQ Register Number
NMAS Loan Number
H.1955.852
Q.L.1923.80

Original description

Urquhart Castle. [One of] Collection of relics found during the restoration of the Castle by H.M. Office of Works - see Register for 1923 pp.53-63 and Loan Register 1923. 5-140. PSAS 112, 1982, 465-476. Horseshoe nail. Flat rectangular head of Biddle's Seacourt type 3ii. (Biddle 1963, 176-7). SD note, November 1999: Upgraded from PSAS.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1955-06-03

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Seafield Trustees
MacKenzie, Innes and Logan [Melville Street, Edinburgh]

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor
Agent

Image

Image of Horseshoe nail of iron, from Urquhart Castle, 13th - 17th century © National Museums Scotland
Image of Horseshoe nail of iron, from Urquhart Castle, 13th - 17th century © National Museums Scotland

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