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Kintore, 'burgh Muir'
Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S), Leaf Arrowhead (Flint)
Site Name Kintore, 'burgh Muir'
Classification Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead(S), Leaf Arrowhead (Flint)
Canmore ID 18579
Site Number NJ71NE 23
NGR NJ 778 164
NGR Description NJ c. 778 164
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18579
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NE 23 c. 778 164.
Two flint, barbed and tanged arrowheads, and one leaf-shaped flint arrowhead from the moor between Kintore and the old castle of Hallforest were purchased, in 1865, from Mrs Watt, Townhead, Kintore, by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1868.
The area mentioned by PSAS (1868) is probably Burgh Muir (NJ 778 164) which is now afforested, and there is no local knowledge of recent finds.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 March 1964.
There is no change to the existing record
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 15 October 2003.
