Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728665

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX76SE 19 c. 780 618.

(Approx NX 780 618). The object of Early Iron Age metalwork hitherto known as the Torrs Chamfrein was found before 1829 in a morass (presumably a peat-bog and probably a drained loch) on the farm of Torrs in the parish of Kelton - presumably in the area of marshy ground marked on the OS maps as Torrs Loch.

In its present form it is a modern fabrication from hitherto separate objects made in the same workshop in the second half of the third century BC. The cap part was probably worn on the head of a pony; the horns were probably terminals to drinking horns. It is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

R J C Atkinson and S Piggott 1955

No further information was encountered regarding the exact find-spot of this Chamfrein; but it is believed locally to have been found somewhere within the area of Torrs Loch (Mr J Smith, Nether Torrs).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 21 February 1963.