Canmore Site 62781: BLAIRBUY - GLASSERTON - BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD, HAMMERSTONE, PERFORATED OBJECT (STONE)
Description
Site Name | BLAIRBUY |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NX34SE 37 |
Broad Class | TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT, ARMOUR AND WEAPONS, UNASSIGNED (OBJECT) |
Site Type(s) | BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD, HAMMERSTONE, PERFORATED OBJECT (STONE) |
NGR | NX 363 418 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 100m |
Local Authority | DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY |
Parish | GLASSERTON |
Record created | 1988-07-04 |
Last updated | 2007-01-17 |
Archaeology Notes
NX34SE 37 363 418.
A number of artifacts from Blairbuie (NX 363 418) are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS). They comprise a perforated stone (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889), a quartz hammer stone (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1891), a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, triangular flint knife, flint borer (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1910), and an abraded quartz pebble (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915).
Other material is in Dumfries Museum, viz: a ? Iron Age sinker, mesolithic and neolithic flints, and a polished stone axe (of Ronaldsway type). A number of the mesolithic flints came from the fields between Milton Hill (NX 362 411) and the Wren's Egg (NX 360 419).
Items found in 1962, also in Dumfries Museum, comprise a leaf-shaped arrowhead, a hammerstone, a stone axe, some flint scrapers and flakes, some patinated, and a small perforated sinker.
In 1968, Cormack notes that a number of patinated flints in the top soil may perhaps indicate a mesolithic site at NX 364 406.
A E Truckell 1964; 1961; 1962; J M Coles 1964; W F Cormack 1968
Two stone axes from Blairbuie are listed. One, Group VI, is in Dumfries Museum (Acc No:1962.35); the other, (?) Group VI, is in the NMAS (AF 335).
J Williams 1970
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