Dingwall Parish

NH55NW 28 c. 54 58.

Presented by Mrs. Lyn Borchard of Natal to the Anthropological Museum University of Aberdeen, bronzes including two socketed axes, bracelet, necklet, sunflower pin head. The putative hoard was discovered prior to 1851 by a farmer who emigrated to South Africa in that year. The precise location of the find is unknown but must be assumed to have been in Dingwall district where the farmer was born and from where he sailed in 1851. The bronzes invite comparison with the contents of other late bronze Age hoards, especially Braes of Gight and Wester Ord, and help confirm links between NE Scotland and continental Europeal Hallstatt cultures of the late 6th century BC.

C Hunt 1984.