Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715676

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT48SE 9 c. 48 82.

A late Bronze Age socketed and looped axe, almost 2 1/2" long, and covered with a fine green patina was found in 1923, about 15' N of a probable Bronze Age burial in one of the sandy ravines E of Gullane (NT 48 82). It is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] (Accession no: DE 126).

J A Cree 1928; J M Coles 1962.

(Miniature socketed axe, possibly linked to Sompting type). Single find. Miniature socketed axe, smooth, brown; socket present but not deep; length 62mm, cutting edge 39mm. NMAS DE 126.

P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.