Summary

Iron axe head of Viking type from Eigg, 9th - 12th century

Accession Number

X.IL 167

Other references

Original description

VIKING PERIOD. Iron axe-head of Viking type. Eigg. KJD notes, Registration date reads '1878, 1882'. MOSAICS note, April 1997: This axe-head was found in a Viking burial mound near Kildonan Chapel on Eigg. 9th - 12th century.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Eigg, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1878

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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