Law Hill, Arnbathie
Scraper (Tool) (Flint)(Prehistoric), Tuyere (Prehistoric)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery (Prehistoric)
Site Name Law Hill, Arnbathie
Classification Scraper (Tool) (Flint)(Prehistoric), Tuyere (Prehistoric)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 28127
Site Number NO12NE 3
NGR NO 1696 2580
NGR Description NO c. 1696 2580
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28127
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kilspindie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
'Quarry. Site of find of incense cup and tuyere; in National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS)'. (Sited to NO 1696 2580)
Information from M E C Stewart 29 August 1953.
Letter to OS Archaeology Division.
Clay tuyere; lower portion of a small hand-made reddish clay vessel; and a calcined flint scraper, found on the shoulder of Law Hill, Arnbathie. Donated to the NMAS by the late T McLaren. (NMAS CM40 and EQ564-5)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1950.
Note (8 June 1989)
In the 1940's, quarrying on the S end of Law Hill (probably on the line of the rampart of the annexe of the fort NO12NE 2, or immediately adjacent to it) revealed the base of a small pottery vessel, a flint scraper and a complete tuyere (NMS EQ 564-5 and CM 40 respectively). The pottery and flint probably date from the second millennium BC, and (despite the possible medieval date that Tylecote suggests) the tuyere may also be of prehistoric origin.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 June 1989.
RF Tylecote 1986.
