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Culbin Sands

Armlet (Bronze)(Iron Age)

Site Name Culbin Sands

Classification Armlet (Bronze)(Iron Age)

Canmore ID 15944

Site Number NJ06SW 6

NGR NJ 01 64

NGR Description NJ c. 01 64

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Moray
  • Parish Dyke And Moy
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ06SW 6 c. 01 64

(Area: NJ 011 646) This remarkable relic was found "three or four years before 1827 by a man in search of a gunflint" in the one small spot among the Culbin Sands where flint fragments are often picked up and where it is supposed that a manufactory may once have existed (see NJ06SW 4).

T D Lauder 1831.

Coiled armlet of cast bronze, at either end, a head with high forehead, blue glass eyes and a round mouth sunk to take, probably red enamel; the relief decoration along the back includes trumpet-shaped curves, "lips", bold lozenges, fine parallel lines and a zig-zag along a central hollow moulding. Weight 2lb 9 1/2 ozs. Early Iron Age, 1st-2nd century AD, East Scottish type. Found on the Culbin Sands, before 1827. Purchased by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1930. (Accession no FA 89).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1931; R B K Stevenson 1951.

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