Archaeology Notes

Event ID 669723

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ75SW 11 c.72 50.

A stone axe hammer, measuring 10 5/16 inches by 3 9/16 inches by 3 3/8 inches from Turriff was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] by the Hon Lady Binning via James S Richardson.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1932.

This is presumably the unfinished Class I axe-hammer that is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number NMS AH 191. It has been petrologically identified as coarse metasandstone.

Information from NMRS (RJCM) 16 February 1993

TH McK Clough and WA Cummins 1988