Canmore Site 67212: CARRUTHERS - MIDDLEBIE - AXEHEAD (STONE)


Description

Site NameCARRUTHERS
Other Name(s)n/a
Site NumberNY28SE 9
Broad ClassTOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Site Type(s)AXEHEAD (STONE)
NGRNY 251 806
NGR accuracyNGR given to the nearest 100m
Local AuthorityDUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
ParishMIDDLEBIE
Record created1988-06-27
Last updated2002-05-14

Archaeology Notes

NY28SE 9 c. 251 806. A Group VI stone axe from Carruthers (NY 251 806) is in Dumfries Museum (Acc No: 1949-31). It measures 5 ins long by 2 1/4 ins across the cutting edge. It has been thin-sectioned, the section being held in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (DUM 4). (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria). J Anderson and G F Black 1888; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.

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