Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663451

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH85SW 27 c. 80 52

A flanged bronze axe (Coles' Class III) from Brackley (farm at NH 802 521) is in the British Museum (WG 1826).

J M Coles 1966; I C Walker 1967; 1974.

(Wing-flanged axe of Ulrome type). Brackla, Cawdor, Nairnshire. Single find. Flanged axe, cleaned, pitted, slight ridge joining the ends of the flanges, faint median ridge on blade. Length 150mm, butt 27mm, cutting edge 52mm, weight 445 gms. BM WG 1826.

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.