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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715676
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715676
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.
