Inverurie Museum
Axehead(S) (Stone), Polished Axehead (Stone)
Site Name Inverurie Museum
Classification Axehead(S) (Stone), Polished Axehead (Stone)
Canmore ID 18948
Site Number NJ72SE 72
NGR NJ 7 2
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18948
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SE 72 unlocated
In Inverurie Museum are the following:
Two polished stone axes, 3 3/8" (86mm) and 2 1/4" (57mm) long (Accession nos. respectively AF 34 and 35).
Presented by Mr C G Reid, 7 Jackson Street, Inverurie in 1960. Location unknown.
A stone axe 4 3/8" (111mm) long (Acc. No. AF 44) and a polished stone axe 5 5/8" (143mm) long (Accession no. AF 45), both unlocated. Loaned by A J Reid, Barnet, Herts in 1961.
A stone axe 6" (152mm) long (Accession no. AF 38) and 3 polished stone axes 5 7/8" (149mm), 4 7/8" (124mm) & 2" (51mm) long (Accession nos. AF 39-41).
Presented in 1961 by J Milne, 58 High Street, Inverurie. All unlocated. Information from Accession Register, Inverurie Museum.
Also held in Inverurie Museum (under accession number AF 37) there is a stone axe which has been petrologically identified as altered quartz dolerite.
T H McK CLough and W A Cummins 1988.
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 stone axes.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 June 2001.
