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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 709059
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/709059
NS93SE 18 97 31.
A felstone axe, 6 3/4ins by 2 5/8ins, from Lamington (name: NS 978 311) was purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1884 (Accession No: AF 256).
Also in the NMAS is an amber seal, found near Lamington (Accession No: NM 35). It is inscribed GRACIA DEI SVM QUOD SVM.
NMAS catalogue 1892.
No further information.
Visited by OS(WW) 24 June 1955.
The axe that is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number NMS AF 256 has been petrologically attributed to group VI (artifacts of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
