Canmore Site 18948: INVERURIE MUSEUM - INVERURIE - AXEHEAD(S) (STONE), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)


Description

Site NameINVERURIE MUSEUM
Other Name(s)n/a
Site NumberNJ72SE 72
Broad ClassTOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Site Type(s)AXEHEAD(S) (STONE), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)
NGRNJ 7 2
Local AuthorityABERDEENSHIRE
ParishINVERURIE
Record created1988-04-11
Last updated2000-12-20

Archaeology Notes

NJ72SE 72 unlocated In Inverurie Museum are the following: Two polished stone axes, 3 3/8" (86mm) and 2 1/4" (57mm) long (Accession nos. respectively AF 34 and 35). Presented by Mr C G Reid, 7 Jackson Street, Inverurie in 1960. Location unknown. A stone axe 4 3/8" (111mm) long (Acc. No. AF 44) and a polished stone axe 5 5/8" (143mm) long (Accession no. AF 45), both unlocated. Loaned by A J Reid, Barnet, Herts in 1961. A stone axe 6" (152mm) long (Accession no. AF 38) and 3 polished stone axes 5 7/8" (149mm), 4 7/8" (124mm) & 2" (51mm) long (Accession nos. AF 39-41). Presented in 1961 by J Milne, 58 High Street, Inverurie. All unlocated. Information from Accession Register, Inverurie Museum. Also held in Inverurie Museum (under accession number AF 37) there is a stone axe which has been petrologically identified as altered quartz dolerite. T H McK CLough and W A Cummins 1988. 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 these stone axes. Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 June 2001.

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