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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728029

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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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.

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