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Skye, Broadford Bay
Flanged Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Broadford Bay
Classification Flanged Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11578
Site Number NG62SE 3
NGR NG 65 23
NGR Description NG c. 65 23
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG62SE 3 c. 65 23
A Middle Bronze Age flanged axe (Class II) was found in 1932 by Master Lachlan Robertson, Lower Breakish, 33" deep in a peat moss, some 600 yds inland from the shore at Broadford Bay.
It is now in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. (Accession no: A.1942.1)
J M Davidson 1941; J M Coles 1966.
(long-flanged axe: Broadford variant of Caverton type). Single find. Flanged axe, smooth, black, hammered blade; length 117mm, butt 23mm, cutting edge 52mm, weight 250 gms. Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (B.1942.1).
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
