Archaeology Notes

Event ID 686057

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO24SW 10 c. 245 419

Name: (NO 2455 4203) Stobcross (Sword & Spearhead found) (NAT)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)

A bronze hoard dating from c.700 BC and comprising a sword and spearhead was discovered in 1818 when levelling an artificial mound of earth standing on a small eminence called Stobcross, in the lands of Denhead. The spearhead, 19" long, has a leaf-shaped blade with lunate openings and perforations. It was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] in 1832 (Accession no. DG 1) by George Kinloch of Kinloch.

The sword is described as 'short' with leaf-shaped blade; its whereabouts are uncertain. The original description of the find states that the discovery was made by several boys who broke (and lost) the sword, but the Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] says that it was made by a Mr Duncan who handed both weapons over to George Kinloch of Kinloch "where they may yet still be seen" (i.e. in 1864).

Name Book 1864; Archaeol Scot 1890; J Anderson 1886; J M Coles 1962