Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660576

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH53SE 5 561 329.

A Late Bronze Age spearhead from Brackla Farm, Inverness, is in the British Museum (Accession no: WG 2042). It is of Greenwell and Brewis's Class IV, ie, leaf-shaped blade and looped.

('Brachla' is at NH 561 329 on OS 6", Coles' distribution map shows approximate siting to it).

J M Coles 1962

Re-classified under Scottish Middle Bronze Age, Class D type, this spearhead from Brackla Farm had provision for rivets to hold the spearshaft, possibly another indication of the Late Bronze Age.

J M Coles 1966

No further information.

Visited by OS (N K B) 28 April 1970