Canmore Site 46338: INGLESTONE RIGG - DURISDEER - AXEHEAD (STONE)


Description

Site NameINGLESTONE RIGG
Other Name(s)INGLESTONE RIG
Site NumberNS80SE 14
Broad ClassTOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Site Type(s)AXEHEAD (STONE)
NGRNS 87 04
NGR accuracyNGR given to the nearest 1km
Local AuthorityDUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
ParishDURISDEER
Record created1988-04-25
Last updated2000-04-12

Archaeology Notes

NS80SE 14 87 04. A chisel-shaped sandstone axe, 5 3/4 by 2 by 5/8 ins, found at Inglestone Rigg, Durisdeer, about 1823, which was in Thornhill Museum in 1888, was transferred to Dumfries Museum in 1965. (Inglestone is at NS 869 047 and The Rig, at NS 876 042.) J Anderson and G F Black 1888; A E Truckell 1966 Group VI. Acc No: 1965-96. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria). J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.

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