Canmore Site 18948: INVERURIE MUSEUM - INVERURIE - AXEHEAD(S) (STONE), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE)
Description
Site Name | INVERURIE MUSEUM |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NJ72SE 72 |
Broad Class | TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT |
Site Type(s) | AXEHEAD(S) (STONE), POLISHED AXEHEAD (STONE) |
NGR | NJ 7 2 |
Local Authority | ABERDEENSHIRE |
Parish | INVERURIE |
Record created | 1988-04-11 |
Last updated | 2000-12-20 |
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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