Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665211

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ14SE 3 1730 4364.

(NJ 1730 4364) Danish Copper Battleaxe and Portion of Sword found (NAT)

OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

'There was found, about 60 years ago, a small Danish copper Battle-Axe and portion of a sword, by a labouring man when casting peats in the Milltown Moss. They were in the possession of W Grant Esq., of Carron until lately when the former was stolen from his premises. The sword has been broken or ground down within 18 inches of the hilt as the person who had it previous to Mr Grant used it for chopping up turnips. Mr Grant asserts that it is of modern date he having some of the same pattern in his possession now'.

Name Book 1870.

Flat copper axe, the top and bottom edges straight, much pitted measuring 5 1/8" long 2 7/16" wide at cutting end and 1 1/2" at the butt and 1/2" in greatest thickness, "found along with fragment of a sword" (probably part of a halberd) in 1864, in Milton Moss, Knockando". Donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by H B Mackintosh (Accession no DA 101)

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1936.

The Grants are no longer at Carron and there is no local knowledge of these finds.

Visited by OS (R L) 9 March 1971.

Early Bronze Age - flat axe Type A. Halberd-not listed.

J M Coles 1971.

(Flat copper axe of Grantown/Milton Moss type). Hoard (?) - Flat axe, copper, dark-red, cutting edge blunted, rough surface; length 130mm, butt 38mm, cutting edge 64mm, weight 475gms - NMA (DA 101). Ass. find: 'found with fragment of sword in 1864' (a halberd?).

PK Schmidt and CB Burgess 1981.