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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702265

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702265

NS53NE 17 c. 570 382.

A Late Bronze Age socketed axe from Law, Darvel (Law Bridge: NS 570 382) is in the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock.

J M Coles 1962

Mr J Hunter (Archaeology dept, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock) confirms

that the above find came from Low Overmoor, Darvel (not Law): see

NS54SE 3.

Visited by OS (JRL) 24 August 1982.

(Socketed axe: Dungiven variant of Dowris type). Law, Darvel, Ayrshire. Single find. Socketed axe, porous, originally green patina, trimmed, short haft ribs. Length 95mm, mouth 28 x 32mm, cuttinbg edge 58mm, weight 240 gms. Dick Institute, Kilmarnock.

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.

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