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Metal Detector Find
Date 2009
Event ID 609107
Category Recording
Type Metal Detector Find
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609107
NO 17 02 A bronze socketed gouge and a fragment of a bronze socketed knife were found by Mr Jim Crombie during metal detecting. These objects may confidently be added to a group of finds from this location reported previously and allocated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (DES 2007, 166). The previous finds included fragments making up most of a leaf-shaped sword, one complete socketed axehead and the blade of a second, two socketed gouges, and part of a socketed spearhead and fragments of an incomplete disc-footed ferrule. While the original context of deposition is not entirely certain, the range of material and its retrieval
from a relatively restricted area would be in keeping with a hoard dispersed by ploughing. These and the other recent finds of Bronze Age metalwork from the immediate area of Kinnesswood Farm will be published in detail elsewhere.
T Cowie and M Hall – National Museums Scotland
