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Pitsligo

Spearhead (Bronze)

Site Name Pitsligo

Classification Spearhead (Bronze)

Canmore ID 20790

Site Number NJ96NW 18

NGR NJ 93 66

NGR Description NJ c. 93 66

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Pitsligo
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ96NW 18 c. 93 66

A socketed and looped bronze spearhead (Coles' Class D), 'found in a moss near Pitsligo', in the University of St Andrews Museum in 1888, is now in the Bishop Collection, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow (Accession no: B.1951.208). (Old Pitsligo Church is at NJ 934 662, while New Pitsligo village is at NJ 88 55.)

J Anderson and G F Black 1888; J M Coles 1962; J M Coles 1966.

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