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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 728029
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728029
NX33NE 11 c. 392 379.
A number of artifacts from Carleton (NX 39 38) were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1889 by Sir H E Maxwell. They comprised part of an axe-hammer (Accession no: AH 84), a perforated sandstone pebble (AO 67) and a sandstone sinker (AX 47).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889; F E S Roe 1967; NMAS 1892.
NMS AH 34 may be a Class I axe-hammer; it has been petrologically attributed to Group XXVII (greywacke from the Southern Uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
