Canmore Site 28252: CALLARFOUNTAIN - FORGANDENNY - BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (FLINT), UNIDENTIFIED FLINT(S) (FLINT)
Description
Site Name | CALLARFOUNTAIN |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NO12SW 1 |
Broad Class | ARMOUR AND WEAPONS, UNASSIGNED (OBJECT) |
Site Type(s) | BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (FLINT), UNIDENTIFIED FLINT(S) (FLINT) |
NGR | NO 101 208 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 100m |
Local Authority | PERTH AND KINROSS |
Parish | FORGANDENNY |
Record created | 1988-02-22 |
Last updated | 2002-05-15 |
Archaeology Notes
NO12SW 1 c. 101 208
Three 'strike a light' flints, and a flake with beautifully worked edges found in rabbit burrows, also a barbed and tanged arrowhead, all from Callerfountain, were donated by Mr G Valentine of Perth to the Perth Museum (Accs. Nos. 1419, 1421, 1422)
J Asher 1923.
None of the flints is in Perth Museum; their present whereabouts is not known. The arrowhead is in the Museum, Acc. No. 1422. No further information.
Visited by OS (E G C) 8 November 1963.
Of the three flints originally listed, only PMAG: 1422, a flint barbed-and-tanged arrowhead, can be accounted for in the Perth Museum Collections. Items 1419 (donated in 1909) and 1421 (donated in 1915) are missing.
Information from Mr M Hall, Perth Museum, 24 March 1997.
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