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Dell, Abernethy

Battleaxe (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dell, Abernethy

Classification Battleaxe (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 27992

Site Number NO11NE 8

NGR NO

NGR Description Unlocated

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Abernethy (Perth And Kinross)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO11NE 8 unlocated.

A stone axe-hammer, 8" (203mm) long, expanded at one end and distinctly hammer like at the narrow end (Evans 120) was found at a depth of 5 feet on a farm at Dell, Abernethy.

D Wilson 1963; J Evans 1897.

Re-classified as battle-axe.

F E S Roe 1966.

The present whereabouts of this axe is not known.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 25 November 1996.

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