Summary

Early Bronze Age flat axe, type Migdale, one of two axes possibly found together with "ferrule-like" objects while ploughing, cists were seemingly also disrupted at the same time, the association is uncertain, from Camptown, Haddington, East Lothian, 2150 - 1950 BC

Accession Number

X.DA 28

Other references

Original description

BRONZE FLAT AXES. Axe, 5 3/4 x 3 in. From Camptown, Haddington, East Lothian. Proc. S.A.Scot. XVI, p.228. Updated from SCRAN full data set.

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)

Camptown, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1882

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

A.S. Skirving

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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