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Millhill
Battleaxe (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Millhill
Classification Battleaxe (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchterarder
Canmore ID 25904
Site Number NN90NW 10
NGR NN 92 09
NGR Description NN c. 92 09
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25904
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blackford
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN90NW 10 c. 92 09
A portion of a perforated axe hammer of granitic stone, broken through the shaft-hole, 3 5/8ins long, found on the farm of Millhill, Auchterarder, was purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities in 1888. (Accession no.: AH 75).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1889.
No further information.
Visited by OS (W D J) 21 June 1967.
Cutting end of a perforated axe-hammer of granitic stone, from Millhill, Auchterarder, Perthshire - Lina Collection, Purchases 1888.
NMAS 1892.
Reclassified as battle-axe.
F E S Roe 1966.
This battle-axe may be of Early form; it has been petrologically identified as epidote amphibolite.
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
