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Strathdon
Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint), Cup (Stone), Flake, Hammer (Stone), Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Spindle Whorl, Stone Ball (Stone)
Site Name Strathdon
Classification Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint), Cup (Stone), Flake, Hammer (Stone), Leaf Arrowhead(S) (Flint), Spindle Whorl, Stone Ball (Stone)
Canmore ID 16765
Site Number NJ31SE 12
NGR NJ 3 1
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16765
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31SE 12 unlocated.
Archaeological material from Strathdon, presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), in the 19th century includes:
1892 - A grooved greenstone hammer, formerly in the collection of John Rae, Aberdeen of which the Museum had had a cast;
1860s- Barbed and tanged and leaf-shaped flint arrowheads and a flint flake presented by A Jervise, Alexander C Anderson and Sir Charles Forbes;
1863 - A small stone ball presented by Alexander Walker;
1863 - A stone cup or lamp with a handle presented by Mr Riach.
1863 - A spindle whorl presented by Alexander G Anderson.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1863; 1865; 1870; 1885; 1893.
(Location cited as NJ c. 35 12).
NMRS, MS/712/43.
