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Colpy
Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Colpy
Classification Axehead (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Colpy Farm
Canmore ID 18274
Site Number NJ63SW 11
NGR NJ 6378 3289
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18274
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Culsalmond
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ63SW 11 6378 3289
See also NJ63SW 20.
(NJ 6378 3289) Stone Axe found (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A stone axe was discovered a few years before 1867 and retained at the farm of Colpy. Its exact find-spot was not known.
Name Book 1867.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 24 February 1969.
Name cited as Colpy Farm.
NMRS, MS/712/62.
The present whereabouts of this stone axe is not known. It was retained at Colpy Farm after its discovery prior to 1867, and it is likely to have been one of the axes from the farm that were collected by JG Callander in the early part of the 20th century and subsequently bequeathed to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 14 June 1996.
