Braemoray
Flat Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Braemoray
Classification Flat Axehead (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 15761
Site Number NJ04SW 1
NGR NJ 00 41
NGR Description NJ c. 00 41
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15761
- Council Moray
- Parish Edinkillie (Moray)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ04SW 1 c. 00 41
A flat bronze axe from Braemoray (Knock of Braemoray NJ 008 419) is in the British Museum (Greenwell Collection: WG 1795). It has a broken butt and blunted blade; its surviving measurements being 4 1/2" long, 2 9/10" across the blade and 1 3/10". Presented to Canon Greenwell by J P Morgan in 1909.
I C Walker 1968.
No further information.
Visited by OS (A A), 2 March 1971.
(Migdale type). Single find. Flat axe, brown, butt broken, cutting edge blunted, one barb broken and resharpened; length 122mm, butt 28mm, cutting edge 72mm, weight 278 gms.
PK Schmidt and CB Burgess 1981.
