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Hill Of Barra
Leaf Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hill Of Barra
Classification Leaf Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Barra Hill; Wallace's Putting Stone
Canmore ID 19649
Site Number NJ82NW 22
NGR NJ 8024 2571
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19649
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Bourtie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ82NW 22 8024 2571
See also NJ82NW 4.01, NJ82NW 10, NJ82NW 59.
A leaf-shaped arrowhead of dark brown flint (AD 202), found on the summit of Barra Hill, (NJ 802 256), was presented to Inverurie Museum in 1963 as a part of the Kerr Bequest.
Information from Accession Register, Inverurie Museum.
This arrowhead was found in a crack in the boulder known as Wallace's Putting Stone at NJ 8024 2571 (information from Dr A A Woodham, Inverurie Museum).
Visited by OS (AA) 28 February 1969.
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 number of this arrowhead.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 June 2001.
