Lumphart

NJ72NE 25 c. 76 27.

The following implements were found at Lumphart, Daviot (NJ 76 27) and donated to Inverurie Museum:

Accession no. BE 1: stone whorl of the late W S Meston collection; found in 1920.

Accession nos: -BE 46, 47, 48, 56, 69, 70, 90, 93, 95: Nine stone whorls from the late John Kerr's collection, donated in 1963.

Accession nos: - AD 186, 187, 189, 190: 4 barbed-and-tanged flint arrowheads.

Accession nos: - AD 210, 211, 212, 215, 222: 5 leaf-shaped flint arrowheads. Part of the late John Kerr's collection.

(Undated) information from Accession Register, Inverurie Museum.

Location cited by GRC/AAS as NJ c. 76 25.

NMRS, MS/712/70.

The collection of Inverurie Museum has been re-catalogued, but the new catalogue is incomplete and there is no easy system of identifying the new accession numbers of these artefacts. However, those of six of the whorls are listed below:

PEHMS: I 2503. Spindle whorl.

PEHMS: I 3072. Spindle whorl.

PEHMS: I 3091. Spindle whorl.

PEHMS: I 3107. Spindle whorl.

PEHMS: I 4850. Spindle whorl.

PEHMS: I 4851. Spindle whorl.

In addition to these spindle whorls there are three whorls from Lumphart in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen:

ABDUA: 18970. Slate spindle whorl measuring 55mm in diameter by 5mm in thickness.

ABDUA: 19518. Slate spindle whorl measuring 68mm in diameter by 8mm in thickness.

ABDUA: 19249. Schist spindle whorl measuring 27mm in diameter by 3mm in thickness.

Also in Marischal Museum from Lumphart are a barbed flint arrowhead (ABDUA: 35521), which measures 36mm by 26mm by 8mm, and a stone axe (ABDUA: 16020).

Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 5 June 2001.