Canmore Site 64058: ARDENDEE - KIRKCUDBRIGHT - AXEHEAD(S) (STONE)


Description

Site NameARDENDEE
Other Name(s)n/a
Site NumberNX65SE 21
Broad ClassTOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Site Type(s)AXEHEAD(S) (STONE)
NGRNX 6940 5260
NGR accuracyNGR given to the nearest 10m
Local AuthorityDUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
ParishKIRKCUDBRIGHT
Record created1988-07-04
Last updated2000-04-12

Archaeology Notes

NX65SE 21 6940 5260. A claystone axe, 5 1/4 by 2 3/4 ins, with the cutting end fractured and imperfect, found in the garden at Ardendee (NX 6940 5260) is in Kirkcudbright Museum (Acc No 109). J Anderson and G F Black 1888 Listed as a Group VI axe by Williams, who also notes a second axe from Ardendee (type unspecified), which is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Acc No: 1927-4045). (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria). Visited by OS (EGC) 11 February 1965; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.

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