Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718916

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT53SE 26 55 32.

A Middle Bronze Age looped and socketed bronze spearhead (Coles' Class E) "dug out from an encampment near the Eildon Hills", which was in the possession of Sir Walter Scott in 1863, was purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1935 (Accession no: DG 95). (The Eildon Hills fall on kms: NT 5431, 5432, 5531, 5532, 5533.)

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1935; D Wilson 1863; J M Coles 1966