Summary

Bronze dagger blade with remains of an ox horn handle and three rivets, from a cist in a cairn at Hill of West Mains, Auchterhouse, 2050 - 1700 BC

Accession Number

X.EQ 255

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS: Bronze Daggerblade with remains of ox-horn handle & rivets, from a cist in a cairn at Hill of West Mains, Auchterhouse. Anon notes, Fragments 19/1.

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)

Hill of West Mains, Auchterhouse, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1898

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Dr S. Cowans

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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