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Inverness, Railway Station

Axehead (Jadeite), File

Site Name Inverness, Railway Station

Classification Axehead (Jadeite), File

Canmore ID 13383

Site Number NH64NE 31

NGR NH 668 455

NGR Description NH c. 668 455

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Inverness And Bona
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH64NE 31 c. 668 455

Area NH 668 455. A neolithic file or polisher, and the top of a polished stone axe, found when digging the foundations of a railway stores building at Inverness, is in Inverness Museum (no accession no.).

Visited by OS (J L D) 31 March 1960.

Analysis of a thin section of this axe fragment shows that it is of jadeite. It is probably of Campbell Smith's Type Ia. In Inverness Public Library.

D V Clarke 1969; W C Smith 1974.

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