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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720752

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT63NW 7 c. 64 36

The upper stone of a quern, 16 in. dia., with two finger holes, found at Smailholm, Spittal, Roxb. is now in Kelso Museum.

G F Black 1888.

Kelso Museum, defunct in 1907, was finally wound up in 1927. The best of the exhibits went to the Museum of Antiquaries in Edinburgh. It is not known what became of this upper quern stone. The find spot was not located. (Information from Walter P Bird, Librarian, Kelso Public Library).

Visited by OS (WDJ), 17 September 1962.

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