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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 728051
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728051
NX89NW 11 c. 803 968.
A polished stone axe, 4 1/2 ins by 2 1/8 ins, found on Carson's Park, Auchenhessnane (Auchenhessnane farm: NX 803 968) which was in Thornhill Museum in 1888, was transferred to Dumfries Museum in 1965.
Group VI. Accession no: 1965-97. (Group VI comprises objects of epidotized intermediate tuff of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series from the Great Langdale and Scafell areas of Cumbria).
J Anderson and G F Black 1888; A E Truckell 1966; J Williams 1970; T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
