Canmore Site 33427: BARNHILL - DUNDEE (DUNDEE, CITY OF) - FINDSPOT (20TH CENTURY), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)(NEOLITHIC)
Description
Site Name | BARNHILL |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NO43SE 39 |
Broad Class | TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT, MONUMENT (BY FORM) |
Site Type(s) | FINDSPOT (20TH CENTURY), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)(NEOLITHIC) |
NGR | NO 476 323 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 100m |
Local Authority | DUNDEE, CITY OF |
Parish | DUNDEE (DUNDEE, CITY OF) |
Record created | 1988-02-29 |
Last updated | 2005-10-10 |
Archaeology Notes
NO43SE 39 476 323.
NO 476 323. A polished axe-head of hornfels found on Barnhill farm has been donated to Dundee Museum (Acc No: 1966- 6). It is squat in form with a convex cutting edge and a slightly battered convex hafting end. One of its sides has been damaged in antiquity. Measuring 2 5/8ins long, the axehead is 2ins across the cutting edge, 1 3/8ins across the hafting end and has a maximum thickness of 1in.
J D Boyd 1966; H Coutts 1971.
This axe has been petrologically identified as hornfels.
T H McK clough and WA Cummins 1988.
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