Cambusmore
Socketed Axehead (Bronze)
Site Name Cambusmore
Classification Socketed Axehead (Bronze)
Canmore ID 14751
Site Number NH79NE 11
NGR NH 76 97
NGR Description NH c. 76 97
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79NE 11 c. 76 97.
A bag-type derivative bronze socketed axe found during quarrying shortly before May 1916 at Cambusmore (NH 76 97) is now in Dunrobin Museum. The herringbone decoration round the socket is unique on a socketed axe.
A O Curle 1916; W Henderson 1938; J M Coles 1962.
Accession no 1914.1.
Information from TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum, by A S Henshall.
(Baggy rectangular axe, comparable to Alford variant of Portree type). Single find. Socketed axe, green with very slight pitting, trimmed, very short haft ribs. Length 95mm, mouth 26 x 35mm, cutting edge 53mm, weight 270 gms. Dunrobin Castle Museum, Golspie (1914.1).
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
