Canmore Site 16568: LHANBRYDE - ST ANDREWS-LHANBRYD - FLAT AXEHEAD (COPPER)
Description
Site Name | LHANBRYDE |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NJ26SE 51 |
Broad Class | TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT |
Site Type(s) | FLAT AXEHEAD (COPPER) |
NGR | NJ 269 621 |
Local Authority | MORAY |
Parish | ST ANDREWS-LHANBRYD |
Record created | 1989-04-07 |
Last updated | 2000-11-06 |
Archaeology Notes
NJ26SE 51 c. 269 621
A flat copper axe (Coles type A?) 'found 4ft below the surface of the road, near the cross-roads north of St Andrews, Lhanbryde, Morayshire in digging a trench for the pipes of the Lossiemouth water supply in 1905' is in RMS (NMAS) (Acc No DA 84). (Cross-roads at NO 269 621).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1924; J M Coles 1971; I C Walker 1974.
(Flat copper axe of Castletown Roche/Pitlochry type). 'Near the crossroads north of St. Andrews, four feet below the surface of the road in 1905'. Single find. Flat axe, copper, badly corroded, red-brown, sides hammered (?); length 155 mm, butt 52 mm, cutting edge 82 mm, weight 855 gms. NMA (DA 84).
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981
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