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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710859
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710859
NT04NE 45 c. 098 489.
Listed among polished stone axes from Peeblesshire, purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1900, is an axe of indurated claystone, measuring 5 1/2 ins by 2 ins by 1 1/8 ins thick, 'from Garvald, Dolphinton'. (Accession no: AF 472) (Garvald House, at NT 098 489, is in Peeblesshire, but the nearby Garvald Burn forms the boundary between Peeblesshire and Lanarkshire for part of its length).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1900.
This axe 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.
