Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674295

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM45NW 6 c438 573.

An Early Bronze Age flat axe, Coles' type Ba, from Du Bhar, Glengorm, Mull, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1948-9 (Accession no: DA 112).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1951; J M Coles 1971

This axe, which measures 5.65" x 3.5m is in the NMAS. The findspot is c. NM 438 573.

NMAS Accessions List, 1972.

No further information.

Visited by OS (RD) 13 June 1972.

(Flat axe of Migdale type). Single find. Flat axe, corroded, green, flutings on one fact through hammering (?), scratch marks on blade; length 142mm, butt 40mm, cutting edge 89mm, weight 400 gms. NMAS DA 112.

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.