Canmore Site 19354: BRODIACH - SKENE - LITHIC IMPLEMENT(S) (FLINT), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)
Description
Site Name | BRODIACH |
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Other Name(s) | KINGSWELLS |
Site Number | NJ80NW 21 |
Broad Class | TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT |
Site Type(s) | LITHIC IMPLEMENT(S) (FLINT), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE) |
NGR | NJ 84 07 |
Local Authority | ABERDEENSHIRE |
Parish | SKENE |
Record created | 1988-04-11 |
Last updated | 2000-04-12 |
Archaeology Notes
NJ80NW 21 c, 84 07.
In Inverurie Museum is a polished stone axe, 7 1/8" (181mm) long (Acc No: AF 33) from Brodiach, Kingswells (NJ 8407). It was donated by J Alexander, Brodiach in 1960. Also from Brodiach are two flint perforators and a flint knife.
(Undated) information in Inverurie Museum accessions register.
The axe has been petrologically attributed to group XXXII (epidiorite or altered dolerite, possibly from the Dalradian of northern Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
(Name cited as Brodiach, Kingswells).
NMRS, MS/712/74.
The collection of Inverurie Museum has been re-catalogued, but the new catalogue is incomplete and there is no easy system of identifying the new accession numbers of two flint perforators and a flint knife from Brodiach. The accession number of an axe from there is PEHMS: I 1031.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 1 July 2001.
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