NMS Archaeology Object 706027: X.2009.12.560 - Pivot stone

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Description

Summary

Pivot stone, crudely-shaped spheroid, one end flattened, the other crudely rounded with a small conical hollow, Newstead, Roxburghshire

Accession Number

X.2009.12.560

Other references

Classification Day Book	X.FRA 6186 DB 2001/173/2

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.FRA 6186 Short Description: weight. Description: Pivot stone? Crudely-shaped spheroid, one end flattened, the other crudely rounded with a small conical hollow (compare FRA 1603). Diameter 91 x 76, height 81 mm. Found in the NE corner of the fort, March 2000. Newstead, Walter Elliot Collection.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Fieldwalking

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, 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

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