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Taynuilt
Hoard (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Taynuilt
Classification Hoard (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 23534
Site Number NN03SW 9
NGR NN 00 31
NGR Description NN c. 00 31
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23534
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN03SW 9 c. 00 31
Three bronze axes, found in a hoard at Taynuilt, were presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Sir H E Maxwell in 1888. (Accession nos DQ 126-8). They comprise a flat axe 5 1/2" by 2 3/4", a flanged axe 5 1/8" by 1 15/16" and a socketed axe 2 9/15" by 1 15/16". Coles classified the socketed axe (DQ 128) as a forgery.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889; J M Coles 1962.
Flanged axe NMAS DQ 127 is classified as a forgery.
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
Schmidt and Burgess (1981, no. 1758F) cite RMS DQ 129 as a forged socketed axe, but an axe with this identity is accepted as genuine as part of the Forfar hoard (NO45SE 21). This is apparently an erroneous entry, the faked axe being DQ 128, which they provenance as 'Scotland'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 April 1990.
