Summary

Blade portion of ground and polished stone axehead, Hedderwick, East Lothian

Accession Number

X.2009.12.616

Other references

Original description

Part of a collection of fieldwalking finds made by Walter Elliot. ARCH DB 2000/103. ARCH TTNC 2000/11. N.B. X.2009.12.254 (X.FJ 199) is not from Newstead (glass bead from Rink, Selkirk), nor is X.2009.12.278.1 (X.BMA 4569) a collection of flint tools and flakes from Kalemouth, Roxburghshire (NT 714 276). X.AF 1173 Blade portion of ground and polished stone axehead, L: 73mm; W (cutting edge): 76mm. From the Walter Elliot stone axehead collection but originally found by J B (Bruce) Mason in the 1920s/1930s at Hedderwick, near Dunbar, East Lothian.

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

Mason, J. Bruce, c. 1920 - 1939 (fl.)
Elliot, J. Walter, 1967 - 2005 (fl.)

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Hedderwick, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

2009

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Elliot collection

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None