Yell, Basta Voe
Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Yell, Basta Voe
Classification Axehead (Stone)
Canmore ID 1388
Site Number HU59NW 8
NGR HU 52 95
NGR Description HU c. 52 95
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Yell
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU59NW 8 c. 52 95.
A stone axe, of soda-felsite, measuring 213 by 70 by 30 mm, with a flat side, found at Basta Voe (name: HU 5295) in 1892 is in the Anthropological Museum, Marischal College, Aberdeen University. It was purchased from the Wilson Collection in 1910.
R W Reid 1912.
