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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704931

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704931

NS79NW 12 730 968.

A semi-solid, tripartite disc wheel, which may date anywhere from c.1300 BC to 100 AD or later, was found 10ft below the surface of Blair Drummond Moss at Roseburn Lane about 1830. The only one of its kind yet recorded in the British Isles, it is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no. LN43). Several arrowheads were also found nearby.

S Piggott 1959; Archaeol Scot 1890; NMAS Accession Register

An accurate find spot for the objects could not be ascertained. The arrowheads are not in the NMAS.

Visited by OS (RD) 16 January 1969

Tripartite disc wheel of ash, found c. 1830 in peat along with two others (not kept) around NGR NS 72 96.

Radiocarbon dating of wheel disc 2810+/- 85bp (860bc), c.1255-815 cal BC.

NMRS MS/735/1

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