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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 665126
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665126
NJ05SW 2 c. 006 519.
An Early Bronze Age hoard found in a cist, which may have contained an inhumation,on the Moor of Sluie (NJ 006 519) in 1818.
It consisted of two flat axes and a halberd; donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Sir John Dick Lauder in 1861 (DA 32-3 & DJ 4)
D Britton 1963; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1863 (Donations); D Wilson 1863; NMAS catalogue 1892.
These are presumably the 'spear and two bronze hatchets' that were found before 1845 'on the property of Sluie', and were then in the collection of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.
New Statistical Accoun (NSA) 1845; Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 23 April 1990.
Hoard, found in a cist on the moor of Sluie. Flat axe, porous, green, tinned surface, facetted sides; length 145mm, butt 37mm, cutting edge 82mm, weight 510gms - NMA (DA 32).
Associated finds: one flat axe of Type Migdale No.156; halberd of O'Riordain Type 6, length 276mm, width 87mm, with midrib and four rivet holes (MNA DJ 4).
P K Scmidt and C B Burgess 1981; S Junghans, E Sangmeister and M Schroder 1968.
Flat axe, smooth green, slightly porous, one face tinned, butt worked in modern times, fine scratch marks; length 147mm, butt 33mm, cutting edge 77mm, weight 435gms - NMA (DA 33).
S Junghans, E Sangmeister and M Schroder 1968; P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
