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Tummel Bridge

Hoard (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Tummel Bridge

Classification Hoard (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 25080

Site Number NN75NE 6

NGR NN 762 591

NGR Description NN c. 762 591

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Dull
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN75NE 6 c. 762 591

An early 5th century (E Fowler 1963) hoard was found in the 1880's at Tummel Bridge (NN 762 591) under the root of a tree that had been blown down. It comprised 3 silver penannular brooches of similar form but with minor variations, fragments of the upper edge and bottom of a bronze vessel or hanging bowl of the type Rygh 725-26, and two very small pieces of the upper edge of a bronze vessel of the same form. In addition, there were two small portions of bronze edge-mounting, probably from the mouth of a drinking horn or horns. The finds are in the NMAS (Accession Nos. FC 162-70).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1888; S Grieg 1940.

Hanging-bowl escutcheon.

L Laing and J Laing 1987.

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