Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713847

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SW 18 2426 7399

See also NT27SW 673.

Wilson (1848) states that several cinerary urns were found when digging the foundation of the N pier of the Dean Bridge (NT27SW 673). One, a collared urn, is in RMS(NMAS), donated in 1827 (Acc No: EA 9). Also in RMS(NMAS) is a socketed bronze axe, found in the Water of Leith in 1831-2, during the building of the Dean Bridge (Acc No: DE 116).

D Wilson 1848; J Grant 1882; E D Dennison 1917; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1944; J M Coles 1962; I H Longworth 1984.

The N pier of the Dean Bridge is at NT 2427 7399.

Visited by OS (JLD) 28 December 1953.

(Socketed axe; Roseberry Topping variant of Sompting type). Single find. Socketed axe, relatively smooth, brown and green, partly untrimmed, blade hammereed, punch or hammer marks also on lower part of face, cutting edge notched. Length 107mm, mouth now 12 x 36mm, cutting edge 54mm, weight 370 gms. NMAS DE 116.

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.